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Popular anger at budget cuts imposed at the behest of speculators and bankers has toppled leaders in Ireland and Portugal, and is forcing the Spanish prime minister into retirement.
The subsequent nine months saw a spectacular collapse of the European momentary order, as speculators worked over one country after another.
Perhaps Bitcoin speculators are betting that there will always be a consortium of rogue states allowing anonymous Bitcoin usage, or even state actors such as North Korea that will exploit it.
The sums required from the international financial institutions were so large that it began to be possible for currency speculators to envisage circumstances in which there would be no help.
Second, short-term capital flows usually would strengthen rather than weaken upward pressure on the RMB’s exchange rate, because speculators, persuaded by China’s gradual approach to revaluation, bet on appreciation.
Fear of speculators, of people who want to sell Poland piece-by-piece, are rampant.
Planned economies were never able to flourish because uncertainty about the future is just too high, something that is best left to the speculators, with the potential of reward if they are right and the disciplining whip of the market if they are wrong.
In fact, the full impact of America’s “QE2” will not be domestic, because the net effect will be a weaker dollar as speculators bet on its decline.
Some observers regard the renminbi’s recent slide as an attempt to squeeze the speculators and signal the advent of a more flexible exchange rate.
Speculators, not surprisingly, have borne more than a little of the wrath.
The speculators argue: we are not the cause of the problem; we are simply engaged in “price discovery” – in other words, discovering – a little late to do much about the problem this year – that there is scarcity.
But the renminbi’s appreciation also attracted carry-trade speculators, who purchased renminbi assets in order to benefit from high interest rates (particularly after 2008) and exchange-rate gains.
Obviously, this is the scenario that everyone – with the possible exception of some speculators – wants to avoid.
Moreover, far from being supported by such a move, the rest of the eurozone would be weakened, as speculators would start testing the true value of the German, French, or Portuguese euro.
They were simply speculators who swooped in after the 2001 default and bought up bonds for a fraction of their face value from panicky investors.
Monetary union was intended to be neither a panacea for eurozone members nor a get-rich scheme for financial speculators.
It announced its intention to stabilize the market – and that bearish speculators should beware.
The growing presence of non-commercial investors has provided important liquidity to the market, as speculators assume risks related to commodity prices that hedgers wish to avoid.
Proposals to create an international fund to counteract price hikes in futures markets, for example, might divert speculators from trading and thus lower the market liquidity available for hedging purposes.
Taking advantage of this nervousness, hedge-fund managers and other speculators have increasingly been betting on the yen’s appreciation; indeed, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange shows substantial interest in the yen futures market.
The announcement was supposed to cause speculators to shake in their boots.
So speculators remain convinced that they are making a one-way bet – win big or break even – and continue to push the yen higher.
It is possible that the MOF will choose to keep the US on its side, and continue to offer only empty threats to speculators.
Speculators will learn a tough lesson, and Japan’s economy could get back on track.
Only when the speculators are brought to heel should such a bold – and highly risky – monetary policy even be up for discussion.
Capital market liberalization was the culprit, exposing countries to the vagaries of international capital flows--to both irrational pessimism and optimism, not to mention the manipulation of speculators.
The IMF could be a powerful financial stabilizer if it managed a significant part of the new surplus countries’ reserve assets, for it would be well placed to take bets against speculators.
Housing speculators seem often to be betting on the political equilibrium that restricts the supply of housing, and on the indefinite continuation of the artificial supports started during this financial crisis.
OPEC might be correct to blame American policies and speculators for higher prices.
It is also correct that if OPEC had excess capacity, it would have already used it to flush out speculators to bring oil prices down.
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