Mohamed El-Erian Says Cyprus not a Huge Issue for U.S Markets

Pimco’s Mohamed El-Erian appeared on SquawkBox this morning, giving some insight on the situation in Cyprus and the world markets as a whole. Here are some highlights:

Is the EU Failing to Deliver Free-Trade?

• 17 members of the Eu, the more the eurozone implodes or unifies, the more outside the eurozone say they’re not sure if they want to enter

For Germany and France, Euro zone is political, for others its economic, fundamental difference

Thoughts on How the Cyprus News Will Affect US Markets

• Very active central bank will compensate for political disfunction
• Cyprus is a big deal, but not a huge issue for US
• Fed cannot afford to see asset prices fall, economy healing
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• On the New Global Economy

• Global economy extremely fluid
• We are living in a fundamental phase of secular realignment, yet we still have a cyclical mindset

On the U.S Recovery

• The U.S. is recovering from great innovation and entrepreneurship, we’re only held back by disfunction in Washington