This is rare time when you're wrong. A carry trade is a carry trade. Our system is merely replicating Japan. A foreign investor doing a carry in America has the same implied currency risk as you or me doing a carry in Japan (or wherever else). The idea here is sort of simple. Create an environment that draws Asian CB's out of dollar domiciled Treasury assets and into riskier derivatives. At some point China, Korea, Japan etal will say goodbye 2% yielding Treasuries, hello 8% yielding distressed.
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Our crisis is not Japan's "fault". I believe the reason Japan promoted the carry was so they could get the benefit of sharply increasing money supply without being accused of "printing money"..
The "carry" can remain only so long as the value of the securities purchased and the currency differential remains profitable.
But with the GreenScam/Bernanke carry, there is no currency risk.
