Monday, April 6, 2009

Indulging in Competitive Devaluation?

지난 대공황때도 그러했듯이 각국 정부는 자국 화폐를 devalue하려는 (이미 해 왔거나) 움직임을 보이고 있다. Quantitative easing도 실행하고 있다. 이에 따른 consequences를 잘 숙고해야 할 것이고 이미 일본이 지난 10년간 이 조치들을 단행했고 디플레이션을 겪어왔기 때문에 Japan의 경험으로부터 배울 필요가 있으리라 본다.

다음 기사는 bearish한 의견이지만 읽어 볼 가치가 있다고 보여진다.

"We don't fully realise in the West what a catastrophic collapse Japan has suffered," says Albert Edwards, global strategist at Société Générale. "The West has dumped a large part of its economic downturn onto Japan by devaluing against the yen." This is about to go into reverse as Tokyo hits the ping-pong ball back across the net. "As the unfolding collapse in the yen gathers pace, the West will see its green shoots incinerated to dust," he said.


www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5110578/Swiss-slide-into-deflation-signals-the-next-chapter-of-this-global-crisis.html

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