Understanding the Yen Carry Trade

Good stuff here from Mark Dow on understanding the Yen carry trade.  Precisely what you should be doing with your Saturday.

“This is the question I always fantasize an insightful CNBC interviewer will ask of his/her guest after the guest offhandedly mumbles something about ‘the yen carry trade’.

Odds are, though, it’ll never happen.

What is a carry trade and why is it so pervasively misunderstood?”

Read the whole piece in the link above.

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Cullen Roche

Mr. Roche is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Discipline Funds. Discipline Funds is a low fee financial advisory firm with a focus on helping people be more disciplined with their finances. He is also the author of Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Understand About Money and Finance, Understanding the Modern Monetary System and Understanding Modern Portfolio Construction.

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