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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (104471)11/17/2009 6:25:05 PM
From: John McCarthy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116555
 
SB

so they short the dollar to goose their return

Cool -g-

I just read (not posted) a thingie that said US Carry Trade
will be - is - bigger than Japan carry trade and could
go on longer

offload the losses on the tax payer if they lose

I imagine each and every bank already has a department
for this

btw - thanks for responding - I totally missed this

regards
John



To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (104471)11/18/2009 3:38:13 AM
From: Perspective  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116555
 
<ask japan about their yen carry trade.>

Do you speak of the event in 1998 or 2008? Despite the massive carry trades at work there, it doesn't appear that either event produced the kind of significant economic turmoil that I would have expected.

`BC


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