Let me give you an example. The Friday after the October 19
stock market crash, I had trouble sleeping,
which is very unusual for me. But I am sure I wasn't the only trader to lie awake that night. All week long, I struggled
with how the events of that week were going to impact the dollar. I was trying on different visions of the world. One
of these pictures was total panic—the world coming to an end, financially.
In this scenario, the dollar becomes the safest political haven, and as a result, there could be a tremendous
rise in the dollar. In fact, on Tuesday of that week, the dollar did rise dramatically as many people withdrew their
money from other places. During the next three days, there was tremendous confusion. By the end of the week, the
dollar had started to give ground again.
It was then that it all coalesced in my mind. It became absolutely clear to me that given the combination of a
need for stimulative action, dictated by the tremendous worldwide financial panic, the reluctance of the Bank of Japan
and German Bundesbank to adopt potentially inflationary measures, and the continuing wide U.S. trade deficits, the
only solution was for Treasury Secretary Baker to let the dollar go. Someone had to play the stimulative role, and that
someone would be the United States.
As a result, the dollar would drop and it would not be in the interest of the other central banks to defend it. I
was absolutely convinced that was the only thing that Baker could do.
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