Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
October 30th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Better if it had some painted faces on it. I could suggest a few who deserve that seat.
October 30th, 2009 at 8:49 am
For chairs that are less shocking, but perhaps more scary, see here.