We have some good news for our German readers: in the month of June, your implicit cost of preserving the Eurozone (read the PIIGS) via TARGET2 funding of current account [5]and various other public sector deficits and imbalances amounted to only €1 billion/day, down from €2 billion in June. We also have some bad news, which is that Europe's negative convexity ticking inflationary timebomb (why inflationary: Why Germany's TARGET2-Based Eurozone Preservation Mechanism Is Merely A Ticking Inflationary Timebomb [6]), which guarantees that with every month in which nothing is done to undo the Buba's onboarding of liquidity risk, the risk for an out of control implosion [7]of German, and implicitrly all European monetary institutions, rises exponentially, and just hit an all time high of €729 billion [8]. To everyone who naively believes that a deus ex can come out of stage left and somehow reverse this guaranteed loss to German taxpayers (sorry: no free lunch) in the form of even more guaranteed inflation down the road, we suggest you short the chart below, somehow (and when you figure out how, let us know, so we can do the opposite).
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