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Diese These vertrete ich hier schon seit langem.
Daher ist es interessant, dass sie nun auch von einem CBS-Marketwatch-Autoren in einer Meinungs-Kolumne vertreten wird. Der Autor ist der Londoner Finanzjournalist Matthew Lynn, der u. a. das Buch "Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis" geschrieben hat.
Kurzfassung: Wenn Draghi Geld druckt, geht es an Europas Banken, deren Hedgefonds es NICHT in den wenig lukrativen PIIGS anlegen werden, sondern dort, wo es die meiste Rendite bringt, und das sind z. Z. USA und m.E. Großbritannien. Folglich ist Draghis Behauptung, Euro-QE solle "einen Aufschwung in Europas schwachen Südstaaten finanzieren", eine dreiste, wenn nicht gar dreckige (Wall-Street-)Lüge.
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Waiting for Godot seems like just a few minutes by comparison. The markets have been expecting the European Central Bank to launch its own version of quantitative easing ... at least since 2011, when it became clear the eurozone was going to need something to lift its struggling economies off the rocks.
But now it appears it is about to finally happen. At its meeting next week, the ECB is widely expected to lay out its plans to follow the U.S., U.K. and Japanese in printing money.If it doesn’t, there will be chaos. QE is already built into bond market. If it doesn’t happen, there will be a huge selloff.
But who will be the real winner when the printing presses in Frankfurt, metaphorically at least, finally start to roll? The plan is for it to help the struggling economies of Europe’s periphery.
The reality is that the two markets that will benefit most are the U.K. and the U.S. Why? Because when central banks print money, it inevitably sloshes outside of its own borders, and Britain and America are far more attractive homes for that cash right now than Greece or Italy.
Indeed, even if the ECB pulls back from QE the U.K. and U.S. will still come out ahead — because both are safe havens when Europe is in trouble.
Nobody knows for certain whether the ECB President Mario Draghi will finally persuade his colleagues to launch QE when they meet on Jan. 22. True, the case for the central bank to print money is compelling. The eurozone is already in deflation. Prices dropped by 0.2% in December, the lowest reading for five years (and remember, that was in the middle of a global slump). In countries such as Spain and Greece prices are falling far more rapidly than that.
Growth has weakened, and is still declining. The German engine has stopped running [wegen der Russen-Sanktionen, die mMn eigens für die Durchsetzung von Draghis Euro-QE aus USA "verordnet" wurden], and its mighty export machine is stalling. France is sliding ever deeper into a depression. Growth across the continent is evaporating.
The trouble is, the Germans are not convinced that QE is right in any circumstances. It looks to them as if it will mean they are bailing out feckless Southern European governments by the back door — and that is not something they want to do. So whether Draghi can push through QE, or whether it will be hedged with so many restrictions that it is ineffective, is still not clear. Even so, the betting must be that something will be done.
When it is launched, it will be aimed at lifting the whole of the eurozone, and especially the struggling periphery. In an ideal world, the newly created euros would find their way to Greek entrepreneurs building new holiday resorts, Italian manufacturers planning to expand their factories, and to German and French consumers planning to buy that Italian stuff and go on a holiday to Greece. The trouble is, few of us live in an ideal world, and the ECB certainly doesn’t.Everything we have learned about QEfrom the way it has been applied in Japan, the U.S., and the U.K., is that although you can decide how much money to print, and in what form, you can’t control where it ends up..
When the Japanese printed money, much of it spilled out into Europe and the U.S. When the U.S. and the U.K. launched QE, much of it spilled into the emerging markets and commodity prices. [A.L.: Das ist kein unerwünschter Nebeneffekt, sondern das "Hauptanliegen" von QE, es soll Preise hochtreiben.] The reason is not hard to understand. The money starts out in the banks, and in a borderless world with no capital controls, they are happy to take the cheap funding, or pass it onto a hedge fund, which then invests it wherever they think it will earn them the highest yield.When the ECB launches its QE, much of it won’t end up in Europe. There are not many investment opportunities in Italy or Greece or Portugal right now. [A.L.: eben, eben. Deshalb investieren Unternehmer mit eigenem Geld dort ja auch nicht. Es wäre zu verlustbehaftet.] Even Germany, with a flattening economy and sluggish retail sales, is not an attractive place to put your funds. So where will it go? The most obvious answer is the U.S. and the U.K.
The U.S. has the best prospects of any of the developed nations right now. The economy is expanding at a healthy rate and jobs are being created. Sure, it has its problems, but they pale in comparison with everyone else’s. The yield on 10-year Treasury bonds is 1.89%, and the dollar is strengthening all the time. Why would you want to keep your money in Italian bonds that yield only 1.77%, with its shrinking economy and rising debt-to-GDP ratio, when you could buy American instead?The U.K. is not in such good shape as the U.S. It is sliding towards deflation, the budget and trade deficits remain huge, and the general election in May could lead to a long period of political instability if no single party emerges as the winner. But it still looks much more attractive than its neighbors across the English Channel.
Growth is robust, and jobs are being created. On top of that, Britain has emerged as a safe haven for investors nervous about keeping their money in Greece or Italy.[GB ist ein bevorzugtes "Kapitalfluchtziel" der PIIGS-Millionäre.] It is the largest economy close to the eurozone. If money is going to spill out anywhere, then it will be into Britain — and into London’s already over-heated property market in particular.
Money might go elsewhere as well.
...A fair bit might be safely stored in gold - one reason why the price has started to finally stabilize and even edge upwards again in the last month.
What it [the money] won’t do is go, at least in any significant way, into the struggling peripheral economies of the eurozone.[Deshalb sind Draghis Sprüche ja auch dreiste Lügen, A.L.] That may be where it is needed — but if the ECB wants to find a way of boosting those countries, it will have to find a better way than printing money and feeding it into the financial system.
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