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Mrs. Watanabe is the generic name for Japan’s housewife speculators, who have wielded significant influence on foreign exchange and other markets through their trading.
The new Consumer Financial Protection Board is also a deterrent, as banks consider it safer to lend to the government, large corporations, and giant real-estate speculators.
Not only does Italy now have the first West European government led by a former communist party, but this development has been embraced by businessmen, investors, and financial speculators at home and abroad.
It made it harder for foreigners to access lira liquidity, thereby squeezing speculators that had shorted the currency.
That, coupled with the 3% depreciation in the past few months, should send a strong signal to speculators that one-way renminbi bets are hazardous – a signal that could help dampen inflows of hot money, which have complicated liquidity management and fueled asset-market volatility in China.
More demanding are the expectations of speculators and investors in New York and London.
Not falling for the trick, speculators repeatedly called his bluff.
But Russians, because of their belief in miracles that are expected to get them what they want without effort, fall prey not only to financial speculators, but also to politicians who will play on their wishes as unscrupulously as the criminals who ran the pyramid schemes.
But speculators are thinking ahead and shifting out of commodities today in anticipation of future higher interest rates in 2015; the result has been to bring next year’s price decrease forward to today.
Encouraged by the illusion of a strong reserve position, the Thai central bank took on the speculators -- and lost.
As a result that country, like Chile today, is so dull that speculators won’t waste time on it.
5.Don’t fight, float - Central banks cannot fight speculators, even by using capital controls.
In the end, they will surrender and that encourages speculators.
If there is a chance of a bigger meltdown because reserves are depleted and a vast external debt might not be rolled over, defending the currency risks an even greater meltdown as more speculators join the fray.
6.Stalling costs - After ministers proclaim for months that nothing is wrong and nothing will be done, devaluations of 10% or 15% only invite speculators to kick at the door to see if more devaluation is possible.
Raising interest rates to the sky in a country that has bad banks and bad debt won't convince and ward off speculators.
The idea of giving more money for the IMF to fight battles with speculators on an even grander scale is preposterous.
The issuance of dollar bonds was a major source of abuse, with speculators buying dollar debt at the official exchange rate, selling it for greenbacks, and then exchanging them for bolivars at a much higher rate on the black market.
Mention the issue to a banker or a mainstream economist and you are likely to get a vehement reply: capital controls do not work, because speculators can evade them at little or no cost, but countries should never adopt such controls, because doing so is very costly.
The Brazilian Government and the IMF are now gambling that with a large international loan to Brazil, the speculators will stop attacking the currency, and things will go back to normal.
Such a policy is fraught with danger; indeed, it is inherently self-defeating, as the establishment of a peg or a band provides an obvious target against which speculators can take huge positions.
In such circumstances, Hong Kong's Dollar would be exposed to another wave of "attacks" from speculators.
Provided that is the case, the price can be whatever speculators believe.
Otherwise, why would investors and speculators cry bloody murder whenever capital controls are mentioned as a possibility?
These include technological innovation that addresses social problems and promotes inclusive growth; further market opening; tough measures against rent-seeking speculators and interest groups; and tax reforms to improve income and wealth distribution.
QUESTION: Some people have said that speculators such as yourself helped cause these crises to some extent.
Financial crises are not caused by speculators, but by the authorities, which create or establish the wrong rules that allow speculators to do what people blame them for.
In other words, to put it more clearly, speculators are messengers delivering bad news.
But if a bunch of speculators decide (rightly or wrongly) that a government’s debt is overpriced, they can force down its price, thereby forcing up its yield (the interest rate that the government must pay).
If the attack persists, speculators can force a government to default on its debt, unless it can find a way to finance its borrowing more cheaply.
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