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Japanese Yen ETF Stands Tall Amid Global Carnage

No replies so I'll explain further. The Fed is not monetizing the debt, they are not 'printing money' like many on the internet think (especially gold bugs). Instead they are borrowing money from foreign countries, Japan, China, Saudi etc. They have been borrowing a lot for many years.

It's like someone getting a credit card and living off large cash advances. Until the limit is reached cash is freely available and inflation is high. But when the limit is reached (now) cash becomes extremely scarce. So USD will continue to rocket higher against most currencies, the JPY being perhaps the sole exception.

Now the Japanese are very wealthy (unlike the Japanese govt which is in debt), and are invested all over the world. They aren't reliant on commodity exports or in truth even manufactured products they are simply wealthy. So a worldwide depression and falling commodity prices won't hurt them so bad, in fact it will help them relative to other countries. Additionally as foreign markets go down (and get ready for a big '87 style finale crash when the markets open again Wednesday New York time) the Japanese will repatriate their wealth out of foreign currencies back into Yen.

There are many other factors too, Yen carry trade unwinding, Japanese interest rates at rock bottom, see also Jim "everyone should own some Yen" Rogers.

So a crash is relatively good for the Japanese. (And you can work out other things like during the big crash coming this week, gold may rise but afterwards it will fall like other commodities have been as panic subsides and the USD stays surprisingly strong).

Can anyone see any risk to say going short the AUD/JPY pair? Currency controls? Anything else? The daily interest is a high that's the only downside I can see, wait until USD/JPY breaks 100 any day/hour now. Then the Yen will really soar.

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