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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (28409)	1/14/2012 9:18:17 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 222549

can Japan, or any other country, print their own money at will? Yes. Japan certainly can. EU countries can't print Euros at will though, which is one reason why they are in trouble. But Japan or any other sovereign country can print however much of their own currency as they want. They will take the consequences if they print much more than needed or wanted, of course. The global currency market is far larger than any one government. Even when multiple govts try to manipulate currency markets, they can do so only for a short period of time before being overwhelmed by market forces. Your dollar manipulation hypothesis is just not true. Now, what is true is that if too many dollars get printed then the currency will weaken. What constitutes "too many" is always problematic, of course.