British Pound BrExit Crash Wins Britain Currency War!

By: Nadeem_Walayat

The mainstream press is in a state of hysteria, panic even following the plunge in the British Pound from a Thursday night high of £/$1.50 to currently stand at £/$ 1.32. Whilst yes the 12% downwards plunge from £/$1.50 is in forex markets terms HUGE, a move not seen the likes of for many decades that takes the dollar exchange rate down to levels last seen in 1985. Nevertheless the mainstream press has missed one fundamental fact for the obvious reason that they just DO NOT understand the financial markets and what the market movements actually mean or translate into.

For instance the MAIN Forex markets story for the whole of this year, in fact for virtually much of the past 5 years has been the Currency Wars, one of central banks attempting to competitively DEVALUE their currencies against one another's in an attempt to IMPORT Inflation and EXPORT deflation. Which I have covered many times before as the following video from mid February illustrates:

This despite the same clueless press earlier on in the year reporting on the likes of Japan implementing NEGATIVE interest rates in an attempt to PUSH the Japanese Yen LOWER as each nation in an attempt to boost domestic demand by means of importing inflation and exporting deflation in what is commonly termed as the CURRENCY WARS.

Therefore rather than the plunge in the British Pound being disastrous, instead Britain has effectively won a regional war in a raging global currency war all without implementing any panic monetary tools or economic policy, which is set against other central banks right across the western world from Switzerland to the whole Euro-zone block and Japan, repeatedly cutting their interest rates to below ZERO in panic attempts to push their currencies LOWER!

In terms of the outlook for sterling going forward, and the wider BrExit impact on financial markets, economy and geopolitics then see my forthcoming comprehensive video analysis set to be uploaded shortly.

By Nadeem Walayat

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