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Strategies & Market Trends : Classic TA Workplace

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To: John McCarthy who wrote (129351)2/9/2006 10:51:49 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw  Read Replies (1) of 209892
 
Is the inference that the YEN becomes the NEW world currency...

It is not possible for the Yen to become "the" world currency. Japan has a large trade surplus - especially against other major currencies - and "the" world currency has to belong to an economy that runs a strong trade deficit.

IMO people tend to put this backwards: it's not the case that the US dollar will lose Reserve status because of balance of payments deficits, rather, the US dollar is the Reserve currency of choice precisly *because* the US runs such powerful balance of payments deficit.

How can it be otherwise?
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