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The Chinese Yuan Is Collapsing
The Yuan has weakened over 250 pips in early China trading. Trading at almost 6.22, we are now deeply into the significant-loss-realizing region of the world's carry-traders and Chinese over-hedgers. Morgan Stanley estimates a minimum $4.8bn loss for each 100 pip move. However, the bigger picture is considerably worse as the vicious circle of desperate liquidity needs are starting to gang up on Hong Kong real estate and commodity prices. For those who see the silver lining in this and construe all this as a reason to buy more developed world stocks on the premise that the money flooding out of China (et al.) will be parked in the S&P are overlooking the fact that the purchase price of these now-unwanted positions was most likely borrowed, meaning that their liquidation will also extinguish the associated credit, not re-allocate it.
While widening the trading bands keeps some semblance of rationality, this is anything but an orderly unwind of the world's largest carry trades:
For some context, this is the biggest quarterly drop in CNY since Q4 1993...
How Much Is at Stake?
In their previous note, MS estimated that US$350 billion of TRF have been sold since the beginning of 2013. When we dig deeper, we think it is reasonable to assume that most of what was sold in 2013 has been knocked out (at the lower knock-outs), given the price action seen in 2013.
Given that, and given what business we’ve done in 2014 calendar year to date, we think a reasonable estimate is that US$150 billion of product remains.
Taking that as a base case, we can then estimate the size of potential losses to holders of these products if USD/CNH keeps trading higher.
In round numbers, we estimate that for every 0.1 move in USD/CNH above the average EKI (which we have assumed here is 6.20), corporates will lose US$200 million a month. The real pain comes if USD/CNH stays above this level, as these losses will accrue every month until the contract expires. Given contracts are 24 months in tenor, this implies around US$4.8 billion in total losses for every 0.1 above the average EKI.
Below we have tried to simplify what is happening as much as possible... (since there are many pathways into and out of all of these positions) to try and enable most to comprehend the problem
Virtuous circle... (last few years)
- Specs sell USD/JPY/EUR, Buy CNY
- Use CNY to buy copper/commodities
- Use copper to finance credit
- Use credit to finance working capital/real estate purchases
- Real estate goes up, more credit available
- Copper goes up, more credit available
- encourages more buying CNY to start virtuous circle...
BUT what happens when one of these chains start to break? OR ALL OF THEM? (now!)
- Thanks to PBOC, can't roll debt via shadow banking system
- Can't rely on local govt to bail out cashflow
- Sell copper/commodities to meet cashflow needs
- Copper price goes down, credit tightens
- Credit tightens, Real estate prices drop
- Real estate prices drop, specs start exiting CNY
- CNY weakens...
And then... (tomorrow)
- Plenty more firms piled on to use the inexorable trend in CNY strengthening as their carry-trade piggy bank (or merely to hedge their export receipts)...
- Those derivative (over-hedges) are now losing money very rapidly...
- Liquidate hedges - downward pressure on CNY
- downward pressure on CNY, more losses...
Remember carry-traders are little more than sophisticated leveraged momentum players - so when the trend is no longer your friend, no amount of carry-arbitrage will cover MtM losses on the notional...
Arguing that the PBOC can defend the currency is moot (they clearly do not wish to); Arguing that the PBOC will manage liquidity via their huge FX reserves is moot (they have done so with the banks - who are awash with liquidity as noted by the low repo rates) - this is about forcing the shadow-banking system to shrink before the bubble becomes totally untenable... unfortunately, we suspect it already has...
Oh dear, remember the Chinese corporation that untenably insolvent but "promised" it would meet interest payments in July and not default... well:
- *BAODING TIANWEI BOND TRADING SUSPENDED BY SHANGHAI EXCHANGE
Uh oh...
All the carry-funded idiocy of the world is starting to uwind
As the world slowly realizes the Fed's growing hawkishness (what are they afraid of? or do they really believe that the economy is growing organically?)
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Granted it's still priced at levels from a year ago, but a pretty big move in a short time. There is a currency war afoot. I'm guessing boots on the ground somewhere if this continues.
I'm guessing China offers a gold-backed currency and/or dumps us treasuries if they feel their currency is being attacked, in a way which goes beyond irritating into harmful.
But, I wouldn't read all that much into this one yet. jmo.
Johnny I like your stuff, I really do. But this article is the complete opposite scenario from a gold back currency. This is Tyler telling gold bugs to bend over and hold your ankles.
Hmmmmmmm.........simple..........SELL THOSE FOCHIN TREASURIES..........
i think China will offer to swap their treasuires for Gold at $20 000 an ounce.
China might go for that. I (as US President) probably would not. I would hold out for $55,000...
How does an American make an easy buck on this trend?
Correction, ALL currencies are crashing.
It is going to get ugly before this is over.
The American Dollar is king. And it will remain king. No kidding. You guys just don't get it. The game is rigged. Silly bastards.
The dollar sure is king. Doesnt matter if yuan/yen/whatever falls, its when EVERY other currency throws in the towel and the dollar goes to the moon the end is imminent. Until then, hold tight.
what we have going on in agregate 3.5 x debt to gdp-not sustainable as approaches that minsky moment,
what will trigger the flash crash? china first? euro, japan, austrailia, untiedusa? world growth sub 2.
flight gone missing or was that to security?
Just another trickee day (for you, round-eye!)
Sink the US and rise like a pheonix.
It's that damn missing Malaysian Boeing 777's fault !!!
Of course it is.
Now run.
Ooopse, no planet for (good?) old hu-mans.
It's that damn missing Malaysian Boeing 777's fault !!!
I'd love to see USD/CNY spike to 7 just to clear out the stupid morons who keep placing these overleveraged one-way bets, and cause the entire financial system to skew and disconnect from economic reality in the process.
The sooner these 'no way we can lose' one way bets are eliminated, the sooner we can get back to allocating financial resources sensibly and efficiently, and perhaps experience some real organic economic growth again instead of the charade of smoke and mirrors we have now.
this is anything but an orderly unwind of the world's largest carry trades:
Looks pretty orderly to me, as in an order to abandon ship!
Tomorrow's weather forecast: Skydiving banksters, sans parachutes.
Looking for signs of contagion. This one has the possibility. It's big enough and it directly affects banks (which are all interconnected, worldwide).
You're really just betting on when the PBOC decides "enough's enough" and turns the spigot back on. Absent that contingency, yes, this would spiral down to catastrophe. But they CAN turn the spigon back on and eventually they WILL if things get bad enough. How soon and how bad before doing so are the only things in play.
"You're really just betting on when the PBOC decides "enough's enough" and turns the spigot back on."
agreed.
Yes, but.
If they print on a scale to cover the fraud, that still does nothing to diminish the fraud, or the need to print more to cover the new fraud. Currency goes Zimbabwe, which I think it will, and there goes all trade with China in the ensuing chaos.
Got popcorn?
Right. That's why China has been snapping up every available oz. they can get their hands on.
"This is Tyler telling gold bugs to bend over and hold your ankles. "
Martin Armstrong has also been telegraphing a rather pessemistic view of Gold.
Margin calls mean liquidations. Real estate, and to a great extent bonds/debt and equities, are far less liquid than Gold.
It's pretty simple: weak hands are going to be forced to hand over their Gold once the margin calls accelerate.
China bought a fuck load of Gold over the last few years; so now the trend is reversing and Gold is probably going to be sold hard into carry/leverage unwind. It might not bottom for a year or more based just on China burning off froth.
China is not the one that needs liquidity. It is the speculators. Who holds most of the gold now? Of the Chinese speculators, where do you think any gold handed over to settle margin will end up? Any non-Chinese players who are captured in the margin trap will have to hand over what? T-bills? This doesn't change the country who holds the gold a bit.
exactly. any phyz gold sold by chinese companies will be bought by the PBOC
in other words, a big sell off will hasten the day that china can flip the switch and provide a global gold backed currency
thanks; I know, I read this after reading similar at wsj and before reading similar or related at reuters and elsewhere.
I think a gold backed currency may be in the works, but is longer term. I think selling treasuries is likely,just as people getting out of long positions was likely in response to the recent PBOC moves, which were designed, in the longer term, to make the currency less susceptible to speculation, and |: collateral attack.
But I think the Chinese have a few more tricks up their sleeve. I think they will get rid of some built up inventory. I think they will peg to a basket, maybe, and I think for sure they'll be making more deals with Rusia in Siberia and maybe JVs in Kazakhstan, and if they're smart, JVs with Russia in Africa.
I don't know or care what paper gold will do - the pricing means nothing, as I think most of ZH agree.
The trend has been obvious. I'm suggesting that Chinese fundamentals, tools, and options are better than is commonly supposed, and you will see exports tick up, more mid and long term investors coming on board, and quite possibly some sort of change to how the Yuan is pegged and/or backed. I'd not be surprised if it declines further, maybe considerably, in the coming days, even eweeks. But I'd be more suprised if this wasn't strongly reversed after say 5/6 weeks and beyond.
Certainly don't claim to be an expert let alone omniscient. But on this one I feel pretty sure that rumours of the Yuan's collapse have been exaggerated.
We'll see, as always. PArt of this depends on whether you think the yuan is fairly or undervalued right now.
I think much also depends on whether or not you think the Chinese think they are more or less likely to get back their investment on US debt as time passes, and whether or not you think pressure on their currency or gdp makes them more or less inclined to buy/sell.
fonz, besides that, I have no idea what a "gold-backed currency" means in terms of China. First, who believes anything China says now, and why would anyone believe anything they said about any "backing"? Next, does anybody really believe China would go to all the trouble of loading up on gold, then allow anybody---especially foreigners---to exchange yuan for that gold? Third, what is the size of China's economy relative to the market value of its gold holdings--it's not like China can just say each of their ounces is worth a million dollars, and then claim their delusional value backs their currency. Finally, if the best gold's popularity gets after all the printing worldwide since 2009 is $1330 an ounce, why would everyone suddenly stand up and take notice that China backed its currency with something that isn't exactly lighting the investment world on fire?
As for the oft-noted "dumping of USTs", the only reason anyone gives that a moment's thought is because of China's long history of being its own worst enemy. Right now, odd as it seems, the yuan is backed by those same USTs, since yuan creation is to some extent a result of the PBoC taking in exporters' FX revenues (note: REVENUES, not profits, since ongoing businesses are China's loss leaders while any profits have come from domestic RE speculation) in exchange for freshly printed yuan. Anyway, I'm a penny bid for the whole lot (by CUSIP number).
In years hence, look for the term "Chinese Economic Miracle" on the same page as Potemkin Village. As a nation, they peaked in 2500 BC, went semi-fallow until about 1300, then sat out the Age of Enlightenment and the Renaissance until others did the heavy lifting and they could buy (or steal) off the shelf. Inventing the lightbulb might be called a miracle, but buying one at Home Depot is just called commerce. The Chinese body twitched around 1990, trying to pull a Lazarus, but the coroner might be just about to tell the insurers that they can cash out the policy and let China join other once high flyers such as Egypt and Portugal as nations that used to be somebody.
I don't think they'd necessarily back the yuan with gold. I'd think they'd back a currency with gold and/or peg the yuan to a basket of currencies. I don't think they've been acquiring gold just to hoard it - why do you?
Your analysis is cute but for the fact China has manufacturing and trade surpluses which the US does not - it has the petrodollar/bretton woods system that is backed up by a military which is over-extended, and a huge portion of GDP - misallocation and graft [f-35] is up against cheaper tech designed to "moneyball" defense against these very systems.
It's one thing to be pessimistic, it's quite another to justify it with absurd, hyperbolic, and non-relativistic assessments which dismiss not only an ancient culture, but the success of countries which steal, copy and reverse engineer - to include Taiwan, Israel, and South Korea.
The dollar isn't going to crash overnight or lose most of its value anytime soon, but it is clearly trending down, while the economy behind the FRN continues to export jobs, import unskilled immigrants, and squeeze the middle class from every direction while saddling them and their grandchildren's grandchildren with debt - much of it owed to China.
Not having enough buyers for your product is a problem.
Not being able to make a product is a bigger one - no matter what happens in the short term as the result of market specs.
Yep
In a situation of de facto jubilee the score board goes to zero but you still get to keep your chips... commodities, capital equipment and infastructure are a big plus. The trillion dollar question is how will those chips fall? Do we sell that big ole military to pay our bills? or do we use it to maintain our place of parasitic privilege? Or to put it another way do things fall apart into chaos or does the current regime grip tighter and unleash fresh hell upon the globe a' la Iraq times a million.
It's odd that the rest of the world really isn't the problem. It's the spoiled mentally retarded country with the ridiculously big stick.
To simplify this reductio ad absurdum, as an investor, would you rather hold a currency whose government sits on the largest stack of gold on the planet, or a currency that claims to sit on the largest pile of gold on the planet, but the government has prevented audit for 60 years? I think it is around June when the former is released, while the latter is documented. For anyone looking for the sneak preview of the conclusion, of course. The bounces and jiggles on the way there reminds me of happy hour at the Cheetah III.
I do not think @Chindit's analysis is 'cute' at all. Your take that China will back its currency with gold and/or a basket of currencies is also a WSJ/Reuters take based on the fact that China has signalled this over the past decade (when they decided to let others know about it).
The main sticking point is how to get/ascertain the vital data to understand and verify the true state of their economy. So far this has been reckoned by using a variety of second party data-- a case in point is import/ export data, the suppies of copper/metals, energy imports/ and so on ( that's why the HSBC data is tracked with the China data). None is ideal.
Why? Simply put: it is unreliable and a holdover from the pre-reform period. Goodness knows they tried to rectify their statistical and accounting procedures to map international standards but a command economy mentality (re: standards and quotas set by the central planners) is a tough ideological nut to crack. And, the SOEs are still a driving (and favoured) force in the economy and that is where the recent problems lie.
Let me expaciate a bit more. There are two fairly distinguishable ideological divides in China amongst the so-called party economic experts. The reform position (loosening of capital controls,market rather than state benchmarks, eliminating the hukou--population mobility restraints) and those who feel the reforms are anathema and China should return to its Stalinist state control economic policies. Hence the Bo Xilai debacle. (I have posted this before here so forgive my repetition).
Thus, this situation is a litmas test for some and a do or die scenario for others in the power circles.
Complicating the economic landscape is the fact that they themselves do not know the extent of the rehypothication of assets/ the extent of shadow financing/ nor the money laundering, mal-investment or flight of capital. Trials for corruption of top officials has accelerated. But at the end of the day, this new turn by the CB is an attempt to shake the tree to see what fruit may fall.
It may also set off a disasterous unwinding ( now that word is cute ) of the economy.
Chindit is right for calling this a Potemkin scenario.And remember Grigory Potemkin erected those fake villages along the Dneiper river to fool the Russian Empress Catherine II at her visit to the Crimea.
Solid work. I agree.
Ha no problem for me, I feel like I've been doing that pretty much constantly, since last April at least
Douchebag war. This world economy has that not so fresh feeling.
You mean Yellen doesn't have that 'New Car Smell'?
Geez I didn't hear a kaboom or anything....tyler are yiu s u re its a collapse
dear junkers - please remember this junk, okay, and we'll see if you, or me, is right.
Thanks.
fwiw i'm not one of your red arrows.
didn't think so and no worries if you had, my good Fonz. Replied further above.
Not my wheelhouse so I take junks/replies very seriously. Pretty much sticking to my story on this one though.
also note that I didn't junk you.
May you swim in interesting current(cy).
The liquidity trap/circle is in full effect, it's feeding on itself now. The more they try to stop it the more they try to get their money out etc. etc..
meh, give it a couple weeks.
things change fast....
B-b-but I thought the yuan was becoming the new world reserve currency. I read it right here on ZH.
Thus the slam down. The big question is who wins. The Western bankers just took a pawn.
I think this is just Tyler being overly dramatic again. Kinda like gold is "surging" when it goes up 19 dollars all of a sudden, as if that somehow means its a trend
I had the same initial thought, but it is a dramatic move in a short time-frame. Either way, we're fucked. If PMs go up dramatically, the bankers will take 'em. If they don't, the bankers laugh. So long as bankers rule the world we're fucked.
I'm sure ill get some reds for this, but I don't fear out right PM confiscation. We are still a relatively large gold mining country, and the ETFs allegedly hold a decent amount, as do the large privately owned storage vaults. I don't believe it will come to a point where they are kicking in doors to take a couple of ounces at a time from private citizens to take in the name of the govt or the federal reserve. Gunfire would ensue, and I do believe that even the most ardent statist will balk at the idea of risking their own lives to seize gold from their own neighbors. Maybe I am over estimating the intelligence and integrity of my fellow man, who knows
There will be no gold confiscation. The middle class already barfed it all up at the cash for gold store.
No confiscation. Just taxes, if it goes up dramatically. They don't take outright. They skim. A dollar from each person on the planet just once every month is close to $100B/year. The Fed is just the ultimate expression of the Sham Wow. Take a little from a lot and you own the lot.
EDIT: sham wow guy didn't have stealth bombers and the Fed takes thousands of times as much.
Ha ya you may well be right. All those old necklaces, ear rings, braclets, etc. All sold for a couple hundred a piece, melted into bars, and shipped off to china. All probably sold to get a few hundred dollars together to buy a huge TV of the newest Ishit.
this is a dramatic move precisely, it seems, in response to PBOC actions which, as I am able to look at it, are designed to basically strengthen the yuan against "speculators" {outside manipulation} over the longer term.
Nutshell, for various reasons, and whether I'm right or not, I think this is a 2 steps back to take 4 steps forward kind of thing.
I'm not trading day by day either though, and there could be a bit more decline, but I think you'll see reversal soon, possibly even very soon, but certainly at 5/6 weeks out, significant improvement from this... and over 9 months... for sure.
Basically, Chinese banks are trying to firewall their currency from western gov and banker manipulation, that scared some people out as has recent bad news. But the bad news in a nation with manufacturing, trillions in reserves and trade surpluses is relative to the bad news in nations which continue to lose manufacturing, have no reserves, and can't themselves print their own money {or have a private bank itself owned by foreign banks printing the currency and skimming off the top and missallocating new fiat on the friends and family plan, etc}.
However, I do agree with you that, no matter what, we are all fucked. There will be no revolution, peaceful or otherwise, and we are being driven either off a cliff or into a wall. Drink accordingly.
China may have missed its chance. Had they backed it with gold instead of a debt financed "virtuous cycle" shadow banking system maybe they would be sitting on a high demand currency. Unfortunately, people will likely run to soon to be worthless USD like 2008/9 again.
I still don't understand why people think the Chinese are planning to more to a gold backed currency. Not going to happen. You cannot manipulate gold, nor create more of it out of thin air. The Chinese are currency manipulators. Just like every other major currency these days. A gold backed currency cannot manipulated or inflated at will, which is why you don't see any gold backed currencies anymore, not will you any time soon
I disagree. They could gain much if they became the creditor of the world. Gold will come in to its own.
So they back the yuan with gold and before the credit markets yield any benefits exports will tank and cause civil unrest.
What are they going to do then? They aren't soon to find the stone covering the entrance to Mao's tomb moved with him resurrected and ready to move everyone out of a job on to communes.
Yeah, and when people are willing to put their life savings into China, wake me up. (Because we'll all be long dead before that ever happens.)
Yeah, and when people are willing to put their life savings into China, wake me up. (Because we'll all be long dead before that ever happens.)
Yeah and you'll constantly see in the comments section how everyone is leaving the USD and yuan is the future reserve currency and rubles and all this other garbage. Lol the proof is in the pudding folks. I hope you douchebags took your own advice and traded dollars to yuan lol and enjoy ride down. We've printed over 4 trillion and still nothing and I'll keep reading about the imminent demise of the USD as reserve currency, until then I enjoy having my money diversified across various assets all of which even gold being denominated in USD.
I hope you continue taking your own advice, friend. I truly do.
But but but the chinese will float the Yuan....and the dollar will crash.....
The Yuan is collapsing against what again? and gold will be thrown out with the bathwater? and lemme guess the SPY and TLT will be the safe havens?
Ho Le shit.
edit....yes redneck you read it right here.
Sum Ting Wong
This will hurt Japanese investment inside China badly. China might like to drive the Japanese Company out of China. It is an economic war against Japan. Also, It could depress Au price. This week China had signed agreement with New Zealand on currency swap.
Why would the Chinese want a strong currency? Geitner had to beg them to get it up just a little. They export. It keeps jobs. a strong Yuan does little good as crazy as that seems.
As for a 'gold backed currency', the Euro already has dibs on that spot. they are now 14 years into it and have proven that a bunch of countries run a more stable currency inflation-wise than any single nation ever could.
If the world wants a stable medium of exchange...its the Euro. If it wants a stable store of value, currencies suck all around.
I respect you mucho lvp, but gold >> the Euro.
The Euro needed bailing out just like everyone else. so what, they lasted an entire 13 years, and this is with the US providing the majority of their military.
Re: "Why would the Chinese want a strong currency?"
From my admittedly mortal understanding, a stronger Chinese currency has benefits, one of which being that it would increase Consumption (by increasing purchasing power of workers's incomes), and thus, it helps reduce the very high Investment proportion of GDP in China, this could be a good thing. And not just for China, but also for increasing Chinese ability to purchase imports (exports from US, EU, etc.).
But yes, I agree: it would also do Something Bad for Chinese jobs.
The ECB held 175b. From LTRO funds? America needs gold and China could use dollars about now. Belgium being a basket case itself.....and ECB could recycle gold dollars and euro and defuse a sticky wicket win win koolaid for the ones who make "it" happen thank you bilderberg eternally! And you two Mr. President(s)!
As the dollar strengthens, dumping US bonds will be more attractive to China. However, as pointed out, they are most likely collateral for repo. Hence they can't afford to liquidate! How sick is that!?
The only hope is to use more or further leverage on appreciated US treasuries, to finance more asset purchasing, such as copper / steel / realestate.
Crash on, CNY! Crash. On.
Do you feel your stomach clenching? That's counter-party risk.
this isn't a counter party risk...this is a simple collateral call. "all notes are being called in" but there is no title to the property.
simply put "there are no assets" basically because no one will lend against anything...period.
"this isn't a counter party risk...this is a simple collateral call. "all notes are being called in" but there is no title to the property.
simply put "there are no assets" basically because no one will lend against anything...period."
Sure there are assets. Some can be had without incurring debt or making payment.
Russia just seized some assets from Ukraine for instance...
Land, fresh water, natural resources, ports, fishing rights, productive people: ALL assets.
Even title is subject to counter party risk. It's a fiction created by the state with the stroke of a pen - it can be removed with the stroke of a pen. It's the same with all currencies, corporations, securities etc....
The UEL's found this out after the Revolutionary War, Chinese during Mao's reign, Cuban expats, etc...
It's going down because the Chinese authorities want it to go down, for a variety of reasons.
I would also like to thank the esteemed God father of this new order FORMER TREASURY SEC. PAULSON! His idea to extort money from the America people by threat and blank sheet shall be copied in every corner of this big blue metal marvel along with more than threat of Marshall law. The paulson corrallary " give me 750 billion or i will order(?) Marshall law" is now the pathway to global singularity
perhaps you meant to say "martial" law.
Marshall is an amplifier.
"Marshall will bouy but Fender control"
Black swans a swarming.
Berstanke at home is going "Mwahahahaahhaha! I got out just in time. Mwahahahaahhaha"
Sovereign hedge funds make my men boobs stiffy
The proper term is moobs.
Rollover: China edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAhhqqX1XEU
There is no such thing as "over-hedgers". By definition, over-hedging is speculation.
So..... what is the gold council going to set ye ole gold price at this AM.? I just cant understand anyone thinking she is going to wipe her ass on Treasuries this early in her duties? China going to annex something soon
Macau macau
That happened quick.
If Chinese government does not use their $3.7 trillion foreign reserve to rescue yuan, it makes me wonder. Is this what they want to see? Is there anything for us? Can we still export to China, regardless how poorly we are doing? I'd rather wait for the conclusion.
This reminds of the movie Casablanca where everyone is trading diamonds at the local pub,trying to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.Keep your stuff liquid and transportable,looking for a safe haven somewhere's or a floating yacht....
There's just too much weird shit going on.... perfectly healthy people jumping/pushed off of buildings....Navy SEALs getting whacked on smack? nah...
I am thinking Bail-in at some point....They are shitting themselves.....
posts like this remind me of why i'm so fond of ZH. all the end of the world hyperbole and black swan spotting aside, it still manages to put out some interesting data that quickly unravels the lies upon lies that the custodians of the financial system don't want laid bare. kudos Tyler.
"all the end of the world hyperbole and black swan spotting aside"
No one, including Bernanke, knows how long the can kicking will work? The Fed can have a powerful short run impact with the exact ength of short term indeterminate. The Fed's investmant strategy (very loose definition for both terms) is based on HOPE. If you think HOPE is an investment strategy, then the term "hyperbole" might be correct term in your statement, even though I would still disagree.
No worries, trade 'em for Iraqi dinar, gonna be worth $3.71 after the "RV" (300,000% ROI) according to "dinarians".
But they've been waiting what, 10 years now?
And they won't say who has $297 trillion to buy up 80 trillion dinar ...or why they'd want to.
OK. I'm confused. I thought we all wanted the Fed to taper. I forgot how many posts I have read here about how it's a crime for the Fed to be debasing the currency, blah, blah, blah. Now, we DON'T want them to taper? Because the economy is crashing? Will somebody please say something technically rigorous and consistent? Or maybe just shut up about the taper? Since nobody seems to know anything about it?
This happened because they sold their treasuries... and if they get all uppety then they wil get another smack
Dudes, the chinese play chess on multiple dimensions at the same time. They can hold a gun to their head and tell the West, "I'm going to kill myself which is going to start a chain reaction that will blow your global money system to bits. Then I'm going to rebuild because I have real money."
or
They can let the shadow bank system shrink which is going to cause the positive feedback for a crack up boom. Do you hear the sound of deflation? Then their treasuries and gold become worth even more in purchasing power.
or
They shrink the shadow bank system to get control of their economy and punish (hopefully try and execute) the parasitic evil (not the good ones) speculators. Purget the system.
or
They do all of this.
Stop thinking in your own paradigm. Think like you're going to live 10,000 years.
China competes with Japan. Yen drops by 20%, Yuan needs to go lower.