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What happens if yields rise further? What happens if the yen depreciates significantly? How much could it depreciate? Could Japan have a currency crisis? What happens if the BOJ ends up owning the entire bond market? These are the questions that investors are asking, and nobody really knows the answers.

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Jared Dillian, author of "All the Evil of This World," and the editor of the 10th Man newsletter for Mauldin Economics, saying that a currency crisis is inevitable in Japan.

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Why would it be a crisis? A falling currency is only a problem if you have a current account deficit or significant net foreign currency liabilities - neither of which is the case in Japan.

There are plenty of economic issues to worry about in Japan, This isn't one of them.

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Yaaaawn, much smarter pundits than this man have been wrong about Japan since...1994 (last big bonds market crash)

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This is getting old. These guys had thankfully disappeared over the past couple of years, after making well publicized doom-saying predictions that never came close to being true. Many also lost their shirts over their "short Japan debt" trade.

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