Subject: EconVue Weekly Spotlight July 19, 2016
From: "Lyric Hughes Hale" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:14:23 -0700 (PDT)

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EconVue Weekly Spotlight

Dear R. Hunter,

My favorite quote this week: I've got fifty quid that says we see an 
alien invasion by Christmas (@markcoflaherty) It has truly been an 
amazing time, when anything might happen. We focus mainly on the chaos 
in Turkey, a member of NATO since 1952 and a country that houses more 
than 90 US tactical nuclear weapons. Since last Friday approximately 
35,000 people have been dismissed or detained, including the deans of 
all its universities. Turkish academics are no longer free to travel 
outside the country. This does not bode well for Democrary. Ironically, 
President Erdogan, who banned Twitter, used it to regain his hold on his 
country. This evening, Donald Trump was nominated by the Republican 
party as its candidate for the President of the United States. The 
status quo, as Ronald Reagan said, is Latin for the mess we are in. 
Stories in our Spotlight This Week: Turkey 1. Turkish Military's 
Influence Rises Again

http://www.wsj.com/articles/turkish-militarys-influence-rises-again-1463346285

Dion Nissenbaum 5/15/16 WSJ This article appeared in the WSJ two months' 
prior to the attempted military coup in Turkey, the first ever in a NATO 
country. Worth reading today. 2. Turkey is the Next Failed State in the 
Middle East

http://www.meforum.org/5558/turkey-failed-state

David P. Goldman 10/15/15 Middle East Forum Turkey may become the 
region's next failed state…There has to be a fall guy

http://atimes.com/2015/09/vladimir-putin-spoiler-or-statesman/

in the Middle East's film noir, and that unenviable role has fallen to 
Turkey. The disintegration of the US-Turkish alliance began last fall 
with a surprise from Washington. 3. Erdogan's Coup

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2016/07/why_the_failed_turkish_coup_will_empower_erdogan.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top

Edward N. Luttwak July 2016 Slate An assessment of the events in Turkey 
by the man who literally wrote the book on how to stage a coup, the 
estimable Edward Luttwak. 4. Turkey's Coup may have Failed - but History 
Shows it won't be Long Until Another One Succeeds

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/turkey-coup-erdogan-ankara-istanbul-military-army-turkey-s-coup-may-have-failed-but-history-shows-a7140521.html

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/countering-chinas-third-sea-force-unmask-maritime-militia-16860

Robert Fisk 7/16/16 Independent UK The story in Turkey is not over. 
Tactical nuclear weapons are housed at the base in Incirlik and reports 
are that 42 helicopters have gone missing from that location. Veteran 
journalist and historian Robert Fisk writes that another coup might be 
on the horizon. 5. Turkey Extends Purge to Universities, Asking All 
Deans to Go

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-19/turkey-extends-purge-to-universities-asking-all-deans-to-go

Isobel Finkel 7/19/16 Bloomberg The purge is gaining force, and Erdogan 
is now going after academics. How will universities reopen this fall? 
More Stories in our Spotlight This Week 6. How To Embrace Nationalism 
Responsibly

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-to-embrace-nationalism-responsibly/2016/07/10/faf7a100-4507-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html?postshare=3311468200459323&tid=ss_tw

Lawrence Summers 7/10/16 Washington Post Brexit might have been more 
about national identity than immigration policy. 7. Philippines V. 
China: Arbitration Outcomes

https://amti.csis.org/arbitration-map/

CSIS 7/12/16 I attended the 6th annual CSIS conference on the South 
China Sea last week in Washington. The Chinese speaker was on the 
defensive about environmental concerns for coral reefs and fishing. This 
is a game changer for Chinese diplomacy with profound domestic 
implications (probably positive) for President Xi Jinping. 8. China is 
the Biggest Market in Fintech - the World Just Doesn't Know it Yet

http://www.lendacademy.com/china-fintech-market/?utm_content=buffer544db&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#comments

Jason Jones 7/16/16 LendAcademy 9. Japan's Public Broadcaster Says 
Emperor Akihito Ready to Abdicate

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0ac18e98-48e6-11e6-b387-64ab0a67014c.html#axzz4EhJHQwrI

Robin Harding 6/13/16 FT The emperor has apparently made know his wish 
to resign, abdicating in favor of his son, who could also serve as 
regent. Could Queen Elizabeth do the same? 10. Obama slammed Polish 
democracy on Friday. Here's how Polish TV proved him right.&nbsp;

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/09/obama-slammed-polish-democracy-on-friday-heres-how-polish-tv-proved-him-right/

Michael Birnbaum 7/9/16 Washington Post More than 100 journalists have 
been dismissed or have resigned from Poland's public broadcaster this 
year, a measure of the major changes underway there. Some journalists 
say that anyone perceived as critical of the Law and Justice party is 
now under threat. President Obama's remarks were intentionally 
misrepresented by government media during his visit to Warsaw. At risk: 
the independence of Poland's high court. And another blow to freedom of 
the press worldwide. 11. Historical Echoes: The Fed's Cuban Connection

http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2016/07/historical-echoes-the-feds-cuban-connection.html#.V4vl1Vdos6h

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/countering-chinas-third-sea-force-unmask-maritime-militia-16860

Mary Tao 7/15/16 Liberty Street In 1926 the Atlanta Fed prevented a run 
on Cuban banks by shipping $26.5M in cash to Havana via gunboat before 
banks opened on Monday morning. The Boston and Atlanta Feds both had 
offices in Cuba beginning in 1923 to protect US interests. 12. Most 
Heavily-Armed States in America

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/most-heavily-armed-states-in-america/?ftag=ACQ-07-10aae5i&vndid=1853319151&nan_pid=1853319151&ad_id=1875906

CBS News 7/18/16 New York is the least heavily armed; Washington DC is 
#2, after Wyoming. EconVue Research and Insights Growing Number of Fed 
Banks Lobby for Rate Hikes

https://econvue.com/reports/michael-lewis/growing-number-fed-banks-lobby-rate-hikes

Michael Lewis 07/12/16 At their June meeting, FOMC members, hawks and 
doves alike, seemed to be in full retreat. In the "dot plot," every 
member scaled back their expected future increases in the funds target 
in the near-, medium- and long-term. The median number of rate hikes 
expected in 2016, which went from four in the December 2015 dot plot to 
2-3 in March 2016, crumpled to barely two +25BP moves expected in June. 
Many observers, not to mention the Fed futures market, scoffed at the 
FOMC's resolve to do even that. Data Round-Up: Single-Family Housing 
Starts Post Impressive Trend Gain

https://econvue.com/reports/michael-lewis/data-round-single-family-housing-starts-post-impressive-trend-gain

Michael Lewis 07/19/16 Housing starts were up nicely in June, reaching 
1.189 mm units (seasonally-adjusted at annual rate) from a 
downwardly-revised 1.135 mm units in May; this +4.8% gain was well above 
the consensus estimate. For 2016 to date, total starts are up a solid 
+8% vs. the same period in 2015. Single-family starts, the more 
economically-sensitive component, accounted for the majority of the June 
increase. They are up a very impressive +15% for 2016 to date vs. the 
first six months of 2015. Obama Speaks: A Presidential Assessment of 
Obamacare

https://econvue.com/reports/david-w-johnson/obama-speaks-presidential-assessment-obamacare

David W. Johnson 07/19/16 Earlier this month, President Obama took the 
unprecedented step of authoring an academic research article in The 
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to document the 
Affordable Care Act's (ACA) accomplishments and suggest improvements. 
EconVue expert David Johnson analyzes the President's arguments. 
Finally, we end as we began, with Turkey. The transcript of today's 
conference call with Steven Cook, an expert on Turkey at the Council on 
Foreign Relations is here

http://www.cfr.org/turkey/turkey-update-erdogans-outlook-consequences-failed-coup/p38145

. His overall assessment is that Turkey is in chaos and that there will 
be an inevitable worsening of relations with the US. I asked the second 
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