And in 2011, right after Fukushima and terrible tragedy, tsunami, tidal wave, near nuclear meltdown. Easy to remember, it's 3, 11, 11 when that happened. And I Thought, well, maybe there's a catalyst here because The Japanese government demanded that the nuclear reactors be switched off. So if one was thinking of being short the yen, you were pushing against a very, very large current account surplus, about 3% of GDP. (12:13–12:19)
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