Yen Plunges As Uber-Dove Kuroda Set To Head Bank Of Japan
In our prediction two weeks ago of who the next Bank of Japan governor was likely to be, we said that "the tussle lies between a slightly less dovish bureaucrat in Toshiro Muto (favored by the opposition) and a banker, Haruhiko Kuroda, who is a front-runner in Abe's camp.... we suspect Abe will err on the side of uber-dovish to fight the currency wars alongside him." Sure enough, the uber-dove Kuroda, not to be confused with the Yankees pitcher, is now set to become BOJ governor.
From Reuters, "Japan's government is likely to nominate Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda, who has called for pumping more money into the economy, as its next central bank governor, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday. Kuroda, formerly Japan's top currency diplomat, has already been offered the post unofficially by the government, which plans to submit its nominees for three BOJ leadership posts to parliament this week, the paper said. Kikuo Iwata, an academic known as one of the most vocal advocates of aggressive monetary expansion, is likely to be nominated as deputy BOJ governor, the Nikkei said without citing sources."
The other deputy BOJ governor post will probably be filled by a central banker, most likely BOJ Executive Director Hiroshi Nakaso, who now oversees the central bank's international operations, the paper said. Kuroda, 68, has been considered a strong candidate to replace current BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, whose term ends on March 19, because of his extensive experience at the Finance Ministry and in international policy. He has long called on the BOJ to set an inflation target and pump more money into the economy through purchases of government bonds and risky assets.
And just as expected, Mrs. Watanabe is replaying the old news once more, even though it has been extensively priced in by most, and the Yen is once again re-re-re-plunging on the non-news.
And just as sure - the price of LNG in Japan is about to go uber ballistic as the cost of imported energy hits fresh daily records.
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It's all cool. Our MBS bearings for Peru will get cheaper then.
and as a USP or UBP you can add that thanks to gamma radiation, they're mostly bacteria free AND glow in the dark!!
The effin Japanese citizens wont do shit...their loyalty to their government is just amazing, they will die for their government. Thats why this coordinated central bank currency war begins in Japan. They can really devalue the Yen and the Japanese people wont do shit about it.
If you replace Japanese with American and Yen with Dollar, your description applies perfectly to the sheeple and situation in the USA.
As hopeless as it seems here, we'll at least have riots and shit. The Japanese will slowly die of starvation before they take to the streets. Suicide is a time-honored tradition in their culture, especially when it comes to a no-win scenario.
the Japanese like to do things the Kamikaze way
Hell yes. First fuck-you-shima and now let's piss away the currency.
At least the glow in the dark sushi will be cheap.
Misogynists spell it Fuk U She Ma.
we will only have riots if the lakers or pistons win the title....
Let's test that theory...
Let's pick a social program and take it away.
I pick TARP.
Section 8 Housing;)
Oooh...a real estate investor riot; sounds really scary. Lulz.
Section 8 is free housing, utilities, cable TV for the Obama voters, and yeah, it would get interesting.
I know what it is. And where the money goes (aka it's reason for existence).
Making those people homeless would hurt the collectors of said "free" rent as their apartment complexes in the shittiest neighborhoods sit empty.
They all have teats to suck, but you only see the "Obama voters" (as if there are no Section 8 developments in red states...lol).
Why is that?
the poor are just a straw to suck tax dollars to the rich
Maybe because some precincts in Philly voted 130% for the Stalinist. Now that's loyalty, to EBT.
So I guess this means we should expect more "knucklers", & "folly floaters"...
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Just watch out for the "Hesitation Hummer".
"I've never seen anyone get a hit off that Hesitation Hummer"
-- Frank Messer
@ Divided States
Some of those loyal citizens are loyal to our company in Peru.
Pluses and minuses, as in so many things. When I was there last May visiting our bearing supplier, I felt confident in them that they would do us right more than I ever felt from Timken (the US's only world scale bearing maker).
Same with our partners in Korea.
Whatever problems Asian countries may have, their loyalty to solid partners has a big upside as well. That is our experience, FTW.
American idiots who watch TV and Hollywood are just as brainwashed. If you watch it, you support it.
Yo, Sudden Debt! Maybe those gamma rays will help protect the grease from deteriorating. Kill germs and all. If the bearings glow a bit, that might help the mechanics mount them better on the wheels during the night shift...
HIE!
Hayata!
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I remember Ultraman and Johnny Socko...now their super hero is Abe, hehe.
What, ya don't remember Action Bastard? (Shin-Chan)
When there is no consequence for more money printing ... why stop?
If the Yen falls into hyperinflation, could that then be the black swan the pushes the USD into hyperinflation? We're all holding dollars of fiat backed by nothing but "faith and credit", and this is a game of confidence, after all.
If the yen falls into hyperinflaton how would that push the usd into hyperinflation? I see the opposite....
I don't mean good for the USDJPY traders who are long on the dollar. Of course this event is bullish for the dollar relative to the Yen. But this can't be good for confidence in the US dollar as a general safe haven for wealth. The US has adapted the Japanese economic model, after all. Can we soon expect an acceleration of hyperinflation in commodities, oil, land, etc?
Works until it doesn't.
Actually I expect a flight to the dollar and another recession in the US first.
Fucking idiots are guaranteeing an implosion soon.
DavidC
I agree...but somehow the bankers will end up winning and the rest of us are the losers...
How can you say that?
"Kikuo Iwata, an academic known as one of the most vocal advocates of aggressive monetary expansion..."
He's AN ACADEMIC, for fuck's sake. Nothing can possibly go wrong.
Kyle Bass in the cat bird seat AGAIN, Bitchz!
again? you mean "finally"...and we will still see about that. certainly if we go "by the numbers" he seems pretty well Sprott on. But that yen is still quite strong...and has been doing nothing but showing strength for a decade or more. i find the whole "energy meme" overstated...as well as the theory that the Japanese are incapable of protest (my understanding is that the anti nuclear element in Japan is VERY powerful...all the more so in being understated. I am no expert however.) I think the only obvious winner is the US dollar...and clearly it's not because "we're doing everything right." http://vimeo.com/51499272
UK downgraded, Retarded-dovish head of the BOJ appointed. Where will gold open, that's what I want to know!
And it opens down. *Head explodes*
Paper gold... The real thing is worth much more than the paper. Give it time.
Money printing all over the world and yet gold and silver get hammered everyday. The fraud gets larger everyday.
that's for the muppets
just like there are financial dark pools and shadow banking, there are shadow gold markets that do not reflect the staged kabuki you refer to. there's war for gold behind the scenes and the hofjuden are winning it - for now.
Just think about what you're saying. I've modified it for you.
If you look at gold, it is simply mirroring the USD index.
2 charts for you to flip:
Gold (GLD)
USD Index (UUP)
People are escaping their local currencies and buying USD. Wouldn't worry much about gold in dollars, the dollar can't afford to appreciate vs the world for very long.
I could point out that the GBP chart looks similar to gold.
USD/GBP
Which means gold is trading substantially as an alternative currency, not just tradition. This is a good thing, not a bad one, particularly if you're USian.
Basically the race to debase hasn't hit the dollar yet.
Ung to the moon?
Here we go again, they still have not spent a penny, yet the pantomime of possibility and expectation is expertly played out act after act. The wheel of the CB rumour mill is in full spin; they could even choose a cryogenic copy of Keynes himself and put him up for election...but until he starts shovelling the cash into the fire, its all but a dream.
I say sell the news on yen pairs.
Watch copper and the implosion of the Australian dollar, if it comes to that.
All talk, no action. One man's name gives back four hundred pips.
Riggggggggggggght...
:D
more like steal even more money from the once middle class that are now broke and give it to the just us criminal banking clumsy pedophile religious cult.
Think of all the japanese baseball teams paying their yank imports in $US...ow
So in this (allow me to coin a phrase) 'new normal' world, Central Banks are in a state of aggressive competition with one another to inflate away their deficits.
Oh my god!
Early 1930's all over again, but exponentially more aggressive this time it appears.