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To: Earlie who wrote (196099)	10/8/2002 11:38:14 AM
From: who cares?	Respond to of 436258

forbes.com Yakuza and Japanese banks. The scale of the theft is mind boggling. You have to figure, the Yakuza is not stupid, so why keep all that money in Japan which they would know is eventually screwed, and where else can they put that much except into the dollar and now the Euro. Probably accounts for a not inconsequential amount of dollar strength over the years. Just like Heinz pointed out that when Europe switched to the Euro all the crims there were buying dollars ahead of the event and it was weakening several euro currencies.