{"id":72,"date":"2007-09-28T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2007-09-28T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T12:42:10","slug":"japanese-housewives-trading-fx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/japanese-housewives-trading-fx\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese housewives trading FX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its not just the professionals that have benefited from the yen carry trade.\u00a0 Japanese housewives have been moonlighting as currency speculators too.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in the past couple of months the reality that there is no risk free investment has hit them hard, often wiping out savings in a few weeks because of leveraged\/margin positions.\u00a0 This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/16\/business\/worldbusiness\/16housewives.html?pagewanted=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">linked article from the NYT tells some of the stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its not just the professionals that have benefited from the yen carry trade.\u00a0 Japanese housewives have been moonlighting as currency speculators too.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in the past couple of months the reality that there is no risk free investment has hit them hard, often wiping out savings in a few weeks because of leveraged\/margin positions.\u00a0 This &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/japanese-housewives-trading-fx\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese housewives trading FX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interest-rates-and-currencies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-1a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}