Tag Archives: Yen

I’ve written a few posts in the last year (notably here and here) about the ever strengthening yen, why it is happening and its impact on the Japanese economy and government. They have been written using the assumption that the Japanese … Continue reading →

In the last post on this issue, we looked at why the Japanese yen was so strong when, given the relatively poor state of the Japanese economy, we would normally expect to see it getting weaker. Since the first post, … Continue reading →

Sometime during the night between 31 October and 1 November 2011, whilst the US markets where open and the Japanese ones slept, the Japanese yen hit $1 = ¥75.82. On waking up, somebody high-up in the Japanese Treasury Department had clearly run … Continue reading →