JPY – ricardian ambivalence

Japan keeps selling — foreigners buy Nikkei dip

The BoJ wrote some cheques that Mrs Watanabe keeps cashing… In the week to 8 June, net-net securities flows again

Another week, another 2tn of JPY buying … mostly due to the Japanese selling foreign assets. Over the last four

Krugman famously said that in a liquidity trap, a central bank must make a ‘credible promise to be irresponsible’. In

Capital resumed pouring into Japan in the week ended 18 May 2013, suggesting that my ‘reversal’ call was premature —

Net capital outflows from Japan continued in the week to 11 May 2013. Japan continued to move capital into foreign

I have been taking a modest interest in the monetary policy experiment that’s being conducted in Japan. Covering Japan during

The BoJ has obtained a larger than usual move in the JPY in response to last week’s new easing policy

The Japanese Business paper Nikkei reports that the Bank of Japan will kick off their easing campaign with Y1.2tn of

Ben Bernanke made a splash in the late 1990s criticising the Bank of Japan. He argued that the Japanese situation