There's no easy answer for the weakening Yen: currency analyst (youtube.com)
Gold is the ultimate store of value and maybe the only way to store value longterm. Fiat eventually all go to zero, it seems. There is no disicpline. It looks great because you can stimulate and manipulate the economy, but once you start inflating you can't stop, because the other side of it is debt. You always have to issue more currency to pay the interest on the debt, or if you try to reign in spending it's politically unpopular. Fiat dollar is a debt instrument. Keynsians want to inflate away the debt, financial repression, grow the economy faster than the rising debt. But the system needs the debt. Central banks are there for that reason, to increase liquidity. 'Mythical value' as Putin said. US is biggest debtor nation at $34.4t in external debt. UK is second with $20t. China is number 8.
Unless you have debt, why hold dollars?
Silver behaves differently.
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