Eisuke Sakakibara
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Sep 11, 2026
Brian FowlerGUEST
Bessent is a very big character.
Brian FowlerGUEST
He kind of reminds me of Japan's Eisuke Sakakibara, who used to warn in the '90s, you know, "We still have bullets in our gun," and, and, and, "Speculators are going to get burned." Same kind of, uh, kind of challenging type, uh, rhetoric.
Brian FowlerGUEST
And he is a big factor because that shows that the U.S. is fully behind this effort to keep the, to strengthen the yen, and I think the market has taken note of that.
Doug KriznerCORRESPONDENT
Would you say that a lot of the movement that we have seen to the upside here is due to short covering, which is to say people have been betting maybe on the likelihood of the yen remaining weak, and they got all of a sudden caught flat-footed? As it begins to strengthen, they have to reverse their thinking on a dime.
Brian FowlerGUEST
Bessent is a very big character.
Brian FowlerGUEST
He kind of reminds me of Japan's Eisuke Sakakibara, who used to warn in the '90s, you know, "We still have bullets in our gun," and, and, and, "Speculators are going to get burned." Same kind of, uh, kind of challenging type, uh, rhetoric.
Brian FowlerGUEST
And he is a big factor because that shows that the US is fully behind this effort to keep the, to strengthen the yen, and I think the market has taken note of that.
Doug KriznerHOST
Would you say that a lot of the movement that we have seen to the upside here is due to short covering? Which is to say people have been betting maybe on the likelihood of the yen remaining weak, and they got all of a sudden caught flat-footed.