[wolfcreek]

Don’t they hold large amounts of our debt/T-bills, etc?

Dollar get better or worse?

[sergeantdave]

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is the perfect example of a drama queen, running around in circles, flapping his arms and crying that his dolly didn’t get a tea cup at the little girl’s party.

I hope that someday Ambrose is dropped in the African savannah to deal with hyenas with stone tools that he must make himself.

[snowsislander]

While AEP is a trifle melodramatic in a few places, his overall analysis is sound.

This is an article well worth reading, particularly for the cogent analysis and for its sound historical view of the yen-dollar trade over the last 15 years.

[April Lexington]

Could Soros be manipulating the Yen to crash the world's second largest economy? Why would the Yen be so popular when the country is in shambles and about to go radioactive for 1,000 years? I'd be dumping Yen. And... I'd be losing money in the process. Go figure...

[April Lexington]

Or... maybe the Yen is stable and the dollar is collapsing as Barry the Buttboy picks his brackets while the world watches us do noting to stop a nuclear meltdown, a Mideast meltdown, an economic meltdown, a middle class meltdown...

[Boardwalk]

Since Monday, Goldman has brought in four members of its global management committee to the Tokyo office. “The Goldman Sachs message is that we are staying.”

[politicket]

This should be an economic lesson to many here in the US that think the US Dollar is headed towards destruction.

Notice how the Bank of Japan injected $15 TRILLION yen into the Japanese economy in just three days?

Most would incorrectly call this VERY inflationary, bordering on hyper-inflationary (maybe even crossing that line).

Instead, the yen is strengthening out of control.

We are in deflationary times - not inflationary. People incorrectly perceive higher prices as inflationary. They are instead signs of desparation from companies seeking to stay afloat.

[OldNavyVet]

What’s going to hell is the Dollar, not the Yen.

The Japanese problem is that they are holding dollars (Bonds, treasuries, etc.) that are going to hell.