Overall, the trading is thin due to closure of the U.S. financial markets.

The Nikkei's rise since July has had limited impact on the yen's upside, but for the moment anyway, stock prices are supporting the yen.

The Nikkei's rise since July has had limited impact on the yen's upside, but for the moment anyway, stock prices are supporting the yen,

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.