Balancing the Japanese economy down

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sun Mar 11 10:36:39 PST 2001


Bob Morris:
>www.stratfor.com, a quite good foreign policy site
>(from a U.S. perspective) said that Miyazawa was, in
>effect, telling the world to sell their yen, hoping to
>cause a drop in the yen, and thus a better market for
>Japanese exports, and that it was a virtual certainty
>that the U.S. and The Fed, supported this move.

stratfor.com has been sourced on this list before. This would create a worse market for U.S. exports, thereby creating a countervailing - perhaps not equal - force to the Fed's rate lowerings. If folks do sell their Yen, what would they buy?

Peter



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