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<p>[QUOTE="Collector1966, post: 1238817, member: 17919"]And yet, Japanese holdings of US Treasuries have actually increased since the disasters. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There's not a shortage of capital in Japan, which has one of the world's highest personal savings rates. Also, the dollar has been sliding downward versus the yen for many years. At one time in 2002, for example, it took more than 123 yen to buy 1 dollar. Three years ago, it was roughly 100 yen per dollar. In February of this year, before the disasters, a dollar could be bought with 80 some-odd yen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collector1966, post: 1238817, member: 17919"]And yet, Japanese holdings of US Treasuries have actually increased since the disasters. [url]http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt[/url] There's not a shortage of capital in Japan, which has one of the world's highest personal savings rates. Also, the dollar has been sliding downward versus the yen for many years. At one time in 2002, for example, it took more than 123 yen to buy 1 dollar. Three years ago, it was roughly 100 yen per dollar. In February of this year, before the disasters, a dollar could be bought with 80 some-odd yen.[/QUOTE]
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