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o put in their current forecasts. Most summarily dismissed our concerns that the recovery earlier this year had elements of a stimulus-driven mirage. Bridgewater Associates was the only firm we spoke to that consistently highlighted the broader process of household deleveraging; and cautioned that when stimulus faded, so
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025226 →re eventually shut down after the ECB (for now) rejected being the buyer of last resort for Italian government bonds, as the markets were hoping. The Bundesbank apparently has objections to the idea. This is a problem: Italy has issued around as much public debt as Germany, but is a considerably smaller count
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o put in their current forecasts. Most summarily dismissed our concerns that the recovery earlier this year had elements of a stimulus-driven mirage. Bridgewater Associates was the only firm we spoke to that consistently highlighted the broader process of household deleveraging; and cautioned that when stimulus faded, so
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025229 →re eventually shut down after the ECB (for now) rejected being the buyer of last resort for Italian government bonds, as the markets were hoping. The Bundesbank apparently has objections to the idea. This is a problem: Italy has issued around as much public debt as Germany, but is a considerably smaller count
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025229 →On today's financial market developments
o put in their current forecasts. Most summarily dismissed our concerns that the recovery earlier this year had elements of a stimulus-driven mirage. Bridgewater Associates was the only firm we spoke to that consistently highlighted the broader process of household deleveraging; and cautioned that when stimulus faded, so
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031156 →re eventually shut down after the ECB (for now) rejected being the buyer of last resort for Italian government bonds, as the markets were hoping. The Bundesbank apparently has objections to the idea. This is a problem: Italy has issued around as much public debt as Germany, but is a considerably smaller count
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031156 →ar-11 Nov-10 World 79% 38% Developed World 8,304, 70/0 Asia 88O/O 50% Central & Eastern Europe 75% 25% Latin America 60% 60% Source: Bridgewater Associates The Ides of March March 3 March 9 Irish Parliament recornenes with mandate to revisit EU/IMF bailout March 10 Moody's downgrades Spain to Aa2
both sides are pretty far apart and will have to compromise to avoid a very negative market reaction to upcoming EU summits. Comments from outgoing Bundesbank President Axel Weber this week are indicative of the challenges here: "Strong German import demand is insufficient to compensate for the structural
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