I Think Today Is The Day The Dollar Breaks Down

Right now the dollar is down and agree or disagree with Gonzalo it is his opinion not mine. I am retired now and unless the world comes to the end I will be happy to sit and watch March Madness. QB


I could be wrong—hell, most of the time, I’m waywrong. But I do think that today is the day the dollar breaks down.  


Get used to it.
Consider the evidence: 

The Bank of Japan managed to keep the yen down following last Friday’s Sendai quake. It was trading in an eerily placid 81-to-82 band on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—but then Thursday (Japan time), someone at the BoJ must’ve prematurely decided that it was all over, because they let go of the gas. 

What happened? It all went south—huge. As I write this morning (8:12am EST), the yen is trading at 78.50 to the dollar. 

Meanwhile, on the eastern side of the Pacific pond, the Producer Price Index numbers came out yesterday—and they weren’t pretty. During February, PPI rose 1.6%, against a consensus estimate of 0.7%. For the year ending February 28, the PPI rose 5.6%. (report here)
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