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Will JPY Devaluation Disrupt Global Growth?
Seemingly hidden from the mainstream media's attention, we note that the last six weeks has seen the second largest devaluation in the JPY since Sakakibara's days in the mid-90s. As Sean Corrigan (of Diapason Commodities) notes, this has to be putting pressure on Japan's Asian neighbors - not least the engine of the world China. Furthermore, JPY on a trade-weighted basis has cracked through all the major moving averages and sits critically at its post-crisis up-trendline. As we noted last night, perhaps Japan really is toppling over the Keynesian endpoint event horizon. JPY weakness and the carry trade may not be quite as hand in hand if rates start to reflect any behavioral biases, inflation (or more critically hyperinflation) concerns any time soon.
The six-week devaluation in JPY (spike up) is the second largest since the mid 1990s...
And JPY on a trade-weighted basis is at a critically important trendline...
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Inflations a Bitch
30 years of low interest rates and printing money, and these people still don't get it.
It is really impossible to know if they do "get it" or not. They are so far down the pipe now that it is like asking the meth head to quit the drug when there is free meth available in the bag. The addict knows that either choice is death for them.
See that hard downward part on the far left?
That's when that Bastard Nixon took us off the gold standard.
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A better question than "Will JPY Devaluation Disrupt Global Growth" is, "Will JPY Devaluation Work This Time After Failing Every Other Time?"
If the BOJ was able to keep the Yen down, they would have done so years ago. They have tried countless times. They can't. And just like every other time over the past 2 decades, this won't work.
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Japan buys $10.3 billion in Chinese Government Bonds. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-03/14/content_14827485.htm
Exchanging their curreny while the Yen is still worth something?
They should have taken a lesson from Hanzo and got some gold:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174708/plotsummary
It isn't a devaluation. It is a crash. The island is radioactive. It was hit by a tidal wave. It was hit by an earthquake. The economy stinks. The demographics stink. The debt is outrageous. The Yen is going to go down in a ball of flames when the CBs stop doing Japan a favor by propping it.
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Dont forget he also sucks fire!
and it reveals the secret that he says "Paul McCartney is dead" just before submerging.
The "fire" is a metaphor for the radioactivity he is sucking in!!!
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Jap gov has been trying for yrs to devalue, maybe this time its different?
Paradox of devaluation: If everyone devalues at once, no one succeeds in devaluing, only in creating inflation.
There is a point where printing money in the traditional manner (borrowing through Ponzi schemes) will not be enough. The Japs face two scenarios:
1) Turn on the printing press without sterilization
2) Let debt defaults take hold
We are seeing the end game for the first CB led madness in the modern world.
Japan has the hot potato(e) and it burns. They may be the first to have to embrace reality to save what is left to them.
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"It's only a tiny leak...." the gubberment there told its people.....March, 2011.
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Huh? Did you even read the post? This is a desperate *effort* to devalue the yen.
The BoJ is utterly desperate to bring the yen down because the high yen is raping Japanese exporters.
An actual hands-off "collapse" would be the best possible thing to happen to Japanese exporters. The BoJ would *love* to see a natural, market-led devaluation of the yen. This isn't one.
All of your points are valid -- but they have nothing to do with the descent of the yen (And if they did, the yen would have plunged before now).
The Dollar is going up against everything today. That may also be a factor.
Everything except AAPL.
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Clearly hope
I'm pulling the chute, mofos!
time to sell gold for fiat?
Right, wait for gold to 'correct' down, and then sell. Brilliant suggestion you've got there... /sigh
What part of BTFD do you not understand?
what isbtfd?
buy the fucking dip
oh... I get it now buy the fiat dip!...So when gold goes up then I should buy more dollars...thanks!
Yes, I'll be stacking Bens.....Ben franklins that is!
Respectfully, you are a lost cause. Good luck with your fiat.
Maybe you can hook up with Mr Hope and trade FOREX for a living.
Respectfully, I was being sarcastic...had my blonde wig on today
My apologies then - I tend to be an asshole when I perceive stupidity.
you are truly the master of baiting
Isn't the "Fiat Dip" the new car from Chrysler for the recession? Is it any wonder thay can't import "Alfa's" in this environment!
Punsters everywhere, wherever Yugo.
If indeed this is the beginning of the "endgame" for Japan's 20-year Keynesian experiment, I hope that Ben Shalom is paying close attention. It looks like our bond market sure is.
the endgame has been beginning for quite some time now.
He who crashes first, crashes best....
Seriously, the last man standing in this game will have the biggest falll....
the game goes on till everybody has fallen, and there is no stepping out of the game of giving up.
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TBT is finally making a move. If it is fairly continuous the double leverage short treasury should make for a very large payday.
Amazing how Japan can keep their Ponzi engine chugging along with no apparent end in sight ...
Any bets as to how high their debt to GDP can go..??
As I recall that number is now at 230...
"Any bets as to how high their debt to GDP can go..??"
Yes- Stratosphere
If you stacked one quadrillion Yen (estimated total Japanese debt) in 1 Yen coins (~1mm thick), you would have six stacks reaching to the sun.
Oh look technical analysis.
Treasury opposes Yen unilateral intervention (backed it when quake hit and desks had to clear)
US launches sanctions on Iran oil
Japan says yes, then not so fast
Yen intervention begins and Yen backs up
Japan agrees to reduce Iran oil imports
Correlation, causation?
Aside: Japan leading parties have support in the 20s
Compare Japan with Greece. DEMOLITION DERBY! And the US is getting crazy budget decisions.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/the-great-japanese-devaluation-comparing-greece-with-japan/
The yen is reversing its entire post-WWII bull market against the USD.
These guys got it right, they were just a few months too early: http://eideticresearch.com/uploads/2/8/3/4/2834543/jyen_5-27-2011.pdf
Global growth disruption may be structurally caused by resource depletions as the real underlying and root cause of most of this stuff (austerity, high unemployment, bailouts, defaults). Natural disasters are detrimental too, but their root cause is not tied to resource depletions. However being able to recover from them well is affected by resource depletions. Disaster capitalism doesn't work well without surplus resources. Fixing austerity and high unemployment and defaults doesn't work well without surplus resources either. The fact that most of these financial crises are trying to be solved with austerity measurers might be indicative in a way. If there were surplus resources available to try to fix economies that are in crises, putting those resources into play would probably work better then trying to roll over the paper and shift the entity on the hook for the paper debts, and pretty much demanding more layoffs and higher unemployment. So what would that tend to indicate about surplus resource availability?
If there were surplus resources available to try to fix economies that are in crises, putting those resources into play would probably work better then trying to roll over the paper and shift the entity on the hook for the paper debts, and pretty much demanding more layoffs and higher unemployment. So what would that tend to indicate about surplus resource availability?
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i don't understand what you mean by fixing economies with surplus resources-unless you mean lower prices would "help" a struggling economy ie: consumer prices-
Resources are subject to supply and demand-the demand must come from a need for them in the economy-
If there is less demand because of weak economic conditions then more resources supply would not do much to help-
There has to be an economic driver-like some kind of new bubble to blow and there are no bubbles to blow at the moment-
There are drivers sitting on the sidelines..nuclear/nat gas auto conversion etc. but that could be a ways off yet-
New jobs require additional or "surplus" resources for the extra work. Money would not seem to be the problem with all the QE CBs have done recently. The FED even lent 15 trillion out the back door on the hush and yet that didn't fix a weak world economy. So the weakness must be due to something else. Resource depletion affects are the likely candidate.
New jobs require additional or "surplus" resources for the extra work. Money would not seem to be the problem with all the QE CBs have done recently. The FED even lent 15 trillion out the back door on the hush and yet that didn't fix a weak world economy. So the weakness must be due to something else. Resource depletion affects are the likely candidate.
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Yes if the economy was expanding (new jobs) then it would require more resources and if we could not provide the resources-certainly it would be a problem that even money could not fix-
My point was more towards the fact that commodity demand is down because of a sluggish world economy-China is at this point quite high on the demand side-but when the credit bubble pops there-it will be no different than here and i think commodities (barring essentials) will fall- jmo-
The problem is-there is really nothing to drive the economies of the world-unemployment is high and could go higher because the CB's unleashed 60 trillion in basically free money (credit) to the world and it sucked all future demand into yesterday-
We have surpluses everywhere--housing/autos/shopping malls/gizmos etc.
Those surpluses will have to be used up and flushed before resource demand will pick up-
http://bit.ly/xPywev
You might rethink about which is the chicken and which is the egg.
Especially with respect to the master resource which dominates all other inputs in its contribution to GDP.
You might rethink about which is the chicken and which is the egg.
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You might want to think about what is the engine and what does it pull-
An abundance of Oil does not "drive" economies-it furnishes them-that's all-or with your scenario--we would have never have had recessions when Oil was abundant-but we had lots of recessions--
Try pushing your car up a mountain pass or digging a 100 yard trench by hand.
Try pushing your car up a mountain pass or digging a 100 yard trench by hand.
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Long before oil or cars-there was a market ie: an economy-
And growth was very small without oil supported virtual energy slaves.
This article on the concept of virtual energy slaves is educational and thought provoking. http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-05-09/you-and-your-slaves
An earthquake just rattled Tokyo!
Does anybody have anything on Tres Knippa? Does his trade make sense? Is he trustworthy?
www.shortjapandebt.com
I still remember the '87 crash at which the japanese traders were tearing their hair out in bunches. Must've drank some Saki that night! Apparently they were misinformed that after a 5% slide or so that the USG would step in and fix things (the Dow).
First Venezuala repatriates their gold last year,and now the Europeans. Someone,somewheres is gonna be sweating bullets if that stuff isn't in its' crate.
Odd how people remember Nixon for Watergate and the Plumbers,when I always think of him scrapping the Bretton-Woods agreement and the gold peg,making all the currencies float (sink). I think the 1% are getting nervous about now...
This is why Fed should ease further.
http://www.cnhedge.com/thread-3032-1-1.html
http://www.jinrongbaike.com/
Devaluation? About time.. JPY needs some juice..
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