http://www.enziosclock.com/economic/update/2009/08/31 Comments for "Yen: Quo vadis, karaoke politics?" en http://www.enziosclock.com/economic/update/2009/08/31 <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-9"><div class="flexinode-textarea-42"><div class="form-item"> <label>Teaser: </label> Much ado has been made of Japan&#39;s election results. We are a little less excited, dubbing these <a href="/random/thoughts/2009/07/26">&quot;karaoke politics&quot;</a>: the Japanese chicken will keep its head firmly in the sand, and the deer will stare firmly at the headlights. After all, nobody can move the impregnable bureaucrats out of their positions of power. Indeed, we just saw some musical chairs in which &quot;Japan&#39;s former ruling party handed parliamentary lifelines to Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano and 54 colleagues who lost seats in yesterday&#39;s record election defeat.&quot;(Bloomberg: &quot;Record LDP Defeat Sees Party Bigwigs Resurrected as &#39;Zombies&#39; &quot;) Curiously, the word &quot;Zombies&quot; is of West African origin, stemming from &quot;fetish&quot;. That morphed into Louisiana creole, meaning &quot;phantom&quot;, and since has been debased to &quot;dimwit&quot;. </div> </div><div class="flexinode-textarea-43"><div class="form-item"> <label>Topics Covered: </label> <ol><li><strong>Why the yen must strengthen</strong></li><li><strong>How to make money off this</strong><br /></li></ol><br /> </div> </div></div><p><a href="http://www.enziosclock.com/economic/update/2009/08/31">read more</a></p> http://www.enziosclock.com/economic/update/2009/08/31#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:01:13 +0800 Enzio 1129 at http://www.enziosclock.com