Ebenso war 2008 die GS-Prognose von "Öl 200 Dollar" eine gezielte Lüge - vermutlich um "gegen den Konsens" short in Öl zu gehen.
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Die Welt war lange Zeit vom US-Dollar abhängig – und damit von der Geldpolitik der US-Notenbank. Das wird sich ändern. Es scheint nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis der Dollar seine dominierende Rolle in der Welt verliert
Dass auch der nächste IWF-Chef ein Europäer sein wird, ist bisher nur für die Europäer ausgemacht. Die USA meiden ein Festlegung und deuten bereits an, dass die Suche nach einem Strauss-Kahn-Nachfolger lange dauern kann.
Die USA haben sich noch nicht auf einen Nachfolger für den zurückgetretenen IWF-Chef Dominique Strauss-Kahn festgelegt. Der stellvertretende Finanzminister Neal Wolin sagte am Freitag, es gebe keine Entscheidung, wer dafür infrage kommt. Er antwortete damit auf die Frage, ob die USA einen Kandidaten aus Asien unterstützen würden. Wolin machte lediglich deutlich, sein Land sei für einen offenen Prozess, der zu einer raschen Neubesetzung der IWF-Spitze führe.
Der wegen versuchter Vergewaltigung angeklagte Strauss-Kahn hatte am Donnerstag seinen Rücktritt vom Posten des Geschäftsführenden Direktors des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) erklärt.
http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/...hin/4198986.html
so wie es immer bei der Besetzung von bedeutenden Posten ist. Die geeignete Person soll qualifiziert sein -das ist jedoch nur eine Nebensache- daneben muss diese Person politisch opportun sein.
Die Definition um die Qualifikation ist so auch von jeder Seite die ein Mitspracherecht hat eine Andere.
Auch wenn Europa und die USA es nicht gerne hören, so wäre es vielleicht an der Zeit eine Person aus einem Land auszuwählen, welches nicht im Schuldensumpf steckt.
Dabei kommen einige Länder aus den Emerging Markets in Frage aber auch tatidionelle Industrienationen wie Schweden, die ihre Hausaufgaben gemacht haben.
Eine Person aus dem Eurokreis oder aus dem Dollarraum können nach meiner Ansicht nicht mit dem notwendigen geistigen Abstand arbeiten.
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der Stärke der Märkte überrascht zu sein. Gestern kamen sehr miserable US Wirtschaftsdaten, der Markt läuft unbeirrt hoch. Charttechnisch ist schon wieder alles im Grünen Bereich.
Ich halte an meiner Shortposition zunächst weiter fest.
Die Liquiditätsausstattung ist immer noch sehr komfortabel auch wenn hier ein kleiner Rückschritt erfolgen sollte.
In den Emerging Markets -allen voran China- steuert man immens gegen das Heißlaufen der Wirtschaft. In den USA ist die Schuldengrenze erreicht und somit kommen zunächst keine neunen Staatsanleihen auf den Markt.
Auf der anderen Seite bedeutet ein geringeres Angebot an Staatsanleihen auch eine geringe Kreditnachfrage staatlicherseits.
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The U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary, Neal Wolin, said Friday there was no alternative to Congress raising the government's debt ceiling. To not do that "would be to leave us with catastrophic results," Timothy Geithner's second-in-command told CNBC at the end of a whirlwind trip through Asia.
But Wolin said he was optimistic a deal can be done with the Congress to ensure U.S. government funding can continue. "We've seen this trauma several times in the past, and every time we've made it through."
The U.S government hit its $14.3 trillion debt limit on May 17. So far, the U.S. Treasury has managed to move money around - suspending fresh issuance of securities to help state and local governments manage their finances; freezing new investments in federal retirement and disability funds, and borrowing from federal pension funds - which allows the government to postpone the day of reckoning until August 2, the ultimate deadline set by Treasury to avoid technically defaulting on its debt.
The U.S. Treasury has not asked Congress for a specific increase in the debt limit. But private economists estimate the U.S. government will need $2 trillion to get past the November 2012 presidential elections.
Asked if the fight with Congress over raising the debt ceiling was distracting from crucial efforts to execute Dodd-Frank legislation passed last year to reform the U.S. financial system, Wolin said he and his colleagues were able to focus on both at the same time.
Wolin was also adamant that the U.S. could continue to provide strong global leadership in financial reform, despite the fact U.S President Barack Obama has struggled to fill several regulatory positions that are key to executing Dodd-Frank. Obama, Wolin said, will continue pushing nominations to fill these posts, but meantime he saw strong leaders in Securities and Exchange Commission head Mary Shapiro, and Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation chairman Sheila Bair.
Earlier, at a public lecture in Singapore, Wolin emphasized the need for cooperation from Asia to implement financial reforms consistently across jurisdictions internationally, and to avoid regulatory arbitrage. He also stressed the importance of achieving more balanced and sustainable growth by redressing fiscal and current account imbalances, an issue now being addressed at the G-20.
Wolin said China understands the need to focus more on stimulating domestic demand, and less on exports, but added the Chinese currency, the yuan, is still "substantially undervalued."
On further freeing global trade and investment, Wolin wouldn't be drawn on whether the Doha round of world trade liberalization talks was dead. At a meeting of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum officials in the western state of Montana Thursday, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said he was not optimistic the Doha round could be concluded by the end of the year.
Instead Kirk discussed options, including building on the Doha round's work through alternative regional frameworks. Asked if the Trans Pacific Partnership was "plan B", Wolin said "we will make progress where we can." The TPP, a multi-lateral free trade agreement aimed at integrating Asian economies, so far involves Brunei, Singapore, Chile, and New Zealand.
Wolin on Friday wraps up a whistle-stop tour of the region that's taken him to four nations in as many days -- Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. His meetings with officials in these countries focused mainly on further liberalizing trade and investment flows, issues high on APEC's agenda. The U.S. hosts the APEC summit in November, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Das die zusätzlichen Dollars aus dem Verkauf der US Staatsanleihen eine Nachfragewirkung auf den Gütermärkten haben war uns immer bewußt.
Wenn eine Bilanz stark mit Fremdkapital ausgeweitet wird, egal ob Staat oder Bürger (wie zu Zeiten des Immoboom) entsteht zusätzliche Nachfrage auf den Güter- und Faktormäkrten. Das ist ja schlussendlich auch der Grund für die guten Ergebnisse der dt. Industrie, die einer der Hauptprofiteure der zusächtlichen Nachfrage ist.
Dies ist auch der Grund, aus welchem ich immer wieder auf die Probleme der Rückabwicklung hingewiesen habe. Wer im Boom profitiert, leidet besonders bei der Kontraktion.
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nicht?
Die Antwort auf diese Frage -vor der sich viele noch drücken- wird den Weg in die Inflation oder Deflation weisen. Ohne eine Kontraktion der Wirtschaft in kauf zu nehmen kann der US Staatshaushalt (dieser wird nur stellvertretend gewählt) nicht auf solide Füße gestellt werden.
Die Alternative ist die weitere Ausweitung der FED Bilanz durch den Aufkauf von Staatsanleihen und wohl auch Regionalanleihen.
Das kann im langfristig darauf hinaus laufen den Staat direkt durch die FED zu finanzieren.
Inflation bestraft den Gläubiger, Deflation bestraft den Schuldner. Da das Boot der Gläubiger ist -so zumindest meine Meinung- in einer schlechteren Position, da hier weniger gewichtige Interessensvertreter sind.
Dabei darf man nicht vergessen welche Schmerzen auf uns zukommen sollten wenn die US Regierung es mit dem Sparen ernst meinen sollte.
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A treasury default apocalypse?
It depends.
The press and pundits are inundating us with predictions of calamity if the debt ceiling is not raised by the approaching deadline. Dire predictions that a Treasury default in making an interest payment will lead to a collapse of the stock and bond markets are widespread, with visions of a plunging dollar leading to a major economic depression. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke are in the chorus.
Even if it’s true that a failure to raise the debt limit in time to avoid a default would cause an immediate and large dive in the financial markets, the equally important question is what would be the effect if Congress does not act convincingly at this critical juncture to reduce our deficits?
Whether the debt limit is raised on time or delayed for a short period, the immediate effect would likely depend on whether investors, from Main Street to China, believed that Congress was about to quickly resolve the deficit problem and that a suspension of interest payments either would be over in a matter of days or that the Treasury could make some temporary financial rearrangements to enable it to continue paying interest for the very short period it would take for Congress to take remedial action. With this scenario, despite some serious selling, the projected collapse would not occur. Indeed, some would see it as a buying opportunity.
This is essentially the view of Stanley Druckenmiller, former fund manager for George Soros and considered one of the world’s most successful money managers. His view is that it would be irresponsible not to raise the debt limit, but far more irresponsible – and dangerous – to raise it beyond the present $14.3 trillion limit without solid controls to reduce the deficit.
The following example, adapted from an illustration by Mr. Druckenmiller, illustrates the point.
Say you own a ten-year Treasury bond promising cash flow over ten years. Congress doesn’t increase the debt ceiling and it becomes clear that your next interest payment is going to be delayed for a few days. It appears certain that your interest payment will be made after a short delay and it also appears clear that Congress is going to make massive cuts in entitlement spending and the government will shortly put its financial house in order. Now you’re confident that you can count on getting your missed interest payment shortly and undiminished interest and principal payments in the future. Under this scenario, you would probably figure it’s better to hold than sell.
Now assume a different scenario. The debt limit is raised so there is no delay in payments of interest, but Congress does not make the massive cuts in entitlement spending and take the other necessary steps to reduce the deficit, so it’s clear that Congress is going to kick the can down the road again, piling up trillions of dollars of additional debt. Now it looks like the only way you’ll get paid is with ever cheaper dollars printed in massive quantities by the government, driving inflation through the roof and driving the value of your bond into the basement as nominal interest rates soar. Wouldn’t you lose confidence in the continuing value of your bond? Isn’t it time to sell?
Confidence, that’s the key. When bondholders lose confidence, when they believe the government is going to monetize the debt, that’s when they start to sell.
There are already disquieting signs of diminishing confidence in the quality of Treasury bonds. Standard & Poor’s recently warned that the AAA status of Treasuries was no longer assured. Bill Gross of Pimco, the nation’s largest bond fund, recently sold its entire portfolio of Treasuries.
Decisions about the deficit and debt issues are now squarely before Congress and the country. If Congress fails at this critical watershed moment to take definitive steps to tame the deficit and debt, will Main Street and China lose confidence? If serious selling starts, it could become a torrent in hours.
If there’s no credible fiscal reform soon, in both spending reduction and revenue raising, heavy bond selling could begin, and that is how the financial apocalypse will start. If it starts and Congress does not quickly and convincingly slash the deficit, the bond selloff could turn into a deluge, brutally spiking interest rates upward and bond prices brutally down. Then, as in the 2008 financial crisis, short-term lending would dry up causing business to slow, creating a run on money market funds and panic in the stock market – as the recent meltdown demonstrated.
And this time the ability of government to stem the crisis is different. Last time Congress and the Fed stepped in with massive stimulus and injections of liquidity to stop the free fall in markets. Now such intervention on the scale required could actually be seen as trying to extinguish a fire with gasoline. The intervention would be viewed as compounding the inflation problem with a new flood of dollars pushing inflation up further. The recent run up of gold prices shows just how skittish many investors are about this possible scenario.
If Congress didn’t step in immediately with Draconian reforms to halt the downward spiral, the doomsday predictions of depression by the pundits could materialize – not because the debt limit was not raised, but because it was, but without deep fiscal reform.
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/economy/...easury-default-apocalypse
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