The money bazaar 좋았다면

A dollar today is worth only about half as many yen as it was a decade ago. And the Japanese, who broke into the American market by selling bargain-priced goods, are now buying up American companies and real estate at bargain-basement prices. What happened? And who's pulling the strings? The answers lie largely in the arcane world of foreign exchange, an arena where a global elite determines the relative values of wo…