I'm still curious about how a body might directly invest in high-yielding forrin currencies like the Icelandic Krone, Turkish New Lira and the Brazilian real sans excessive layers of middlemen.
All three currencies have double-digit interest rates and represent a very nice earner for big business.
But Japanese housewives are making trillions from carry trading. Borrowing at home and investing in higher-yoelding.
If one were to borrow 15K from Halifax, you could easily whack inflation in the carry trade, by repaying at 6.9% and getting 17% from Istanbul.
But despite what certain people say, there's little clarity as to how to go about it.
Hey, central bankers, maybe you wouldn't need to pay such ruinously high rates if you'd only make it easier for Joe Smallinvestor to buy your goddamn bonds!
I would ask the mods to avoid the temptation to close off this thread and simply allow people to talk about it. Yeah, maybe something similar has been discussed before somewhere in the dusty archives, but markets have evolved since then and shutting down polite discussion is always bad.
The world won't explode if you allow a little bit of duplicated discussion
All three currencies have double-digit interest rates and represent a very nice earner for big business.
But Japanese housewives are making trillions from carry trading. Borrowing at home and investing in higher-yoelding.
If one were to borrow 15K from Halifax, you could easily whack inflation in the carry trade, by repaying at 6.9% and getting 17% from Istanbul.
But despite what certain people say, there's little clarity as to how to go about it.
Hey, central bankers, maybe you wouldn't need to pay such ruinously high rates if you'd only make it easier for Joe Smallinvestor to buy your goddamn bonds!
I would ask the mods to avoid the temptation to close off this thread and simply allow people to talk about it. Yeah, maybe something similar has been discussed before somewhere in the dusty archives, but markets have evolved since then and shutting down polite discussion is always bad.
The world won't explode if you allow a little bit of duplicated discussion