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To: GVTucker who wrote (98209)	2/4/2000 7:53:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 186894

Exactly, the yen carry trade is impossible to resist if one can raise the loan in Tokyo. 10 yr Japan pays 1.5%, and even most hedge funds (with US Treasuries as collateral) are better risks than the Japanese government. It is quite easy to see that there are mucho dinero to be made in exactly this way -- and if you keep your personal wealth in several different profits, there are only some specific risks while overall portfolio risk is modest. With my beliefs about government, I don't even want it stopped. But governments must obviously become much slicker to survive.