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Is Japan Zimbabwe?
Is Japan Zimbabwe? Is Japan Zimbabwe? How preposterous: Japan is an advanced economy that cannot possibly suffer the same fate as Zimbabwe. Right? Or could Japan get hyperinflation? Below I explain why Japan, and with it investors’ portfolios, might be at risk. The other day, when I was on a panel discussing unsustainable deficits in […]
US “Isolated” As Key Ally Japan Considers Joining China-Led Bank
US “Isolated” As Key Ally Japan Considers Joining China-Led Bank Well, that escalated quickly. Just a week ago it appeared Washington had managed (for the time being at least) to convince the US’ closest allies to refrain from joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a sinocentric institution aimed at promoting development across Asia that is […]
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters Contra Corner is not about investment advice, but its unstinting critique of the current malignant monetary regime does not merely imply that the Wall Street casino is a dangerous place for your money. No, it screams get out of harms’ way. Now! Yet I am […]
Currency Wars… Are Not Working
Currency Wars… Are Not Working While none of the current batch of currency-devaluing Central Bankers would admit that their policies are designed to weaken the currency, enhance competitiveness, and hail a new bright future of growth for their nation (by printing money), it is clear that is the chosen textbook-based path chosen. However, as the following […]
Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth anniversary of earthquake
Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth anniversary of earthquake Four years ago today Japan was hit with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami that caused widespread destruction, leaving almost 22,000 people dead or missing and triggering a crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The triple nuclear meltdown was the world’s […]
The Monetary Illusion Again in Trade
The Monetary Illusion Again in Trade Just as a follow-up to further highlight and emphasize the “monetary illusion” of currency devaluation in this closed environment, the yen’s returned devaluation against the “dollar” more recently has renewed confusion (or intentional misdirection) about what Abenomics is supposedly accomplishing. Taken solely from the perspective of the Japanese internally, exports […]
Why Japan is Not Greece or EU For that Matter
Why Japan is Not Greece or EU For that Matter QUESTION: Hello Martin There are a few writers who speculate the the yen will be the first currency to fall (because Japan has been tied into QE and flat interest rates for decades already, and their manufacturing is suffering). How do you think the currency situation […]
Japan projects to spend 43% of tax revenue just to pay interest on the debt
Japan projects to spend 43% of tax revenue just to pay interest on the debt It’s entirely possible that we may see interstellar space travel in our lifetime. And what a dream that would be. But in the meantime, for anyone that’s losing patience with space technology, I would recommend you visit Japan. Because for […]
ECB Will Cut Rates To Minus 3%: JP Morgan
ECB Will Cut Rates To Minus 3%: JP Morgan A running theme here over the past several weeks has been that the ECB’s €1.1 trillion foray into quantitative easing will be severely hindered by a laundry list of constraints (some of which were unwittingly self-imposed). Another topic we’ve covered exhaustively is the idea that the world’s central […]
Global Debt Is MORE THAN TWICE AS BIG As the Entire World Economy … What Does It Mean?
Global Debt Is MORE THAN TWICE AS BIG As the Entire World Economy … What Does It Mean? The Guardian reports that global debt has grown by $57 trillion dollars – to $199 trillion dollars – since the 2008 financial crisis. How much is that? It’s a big number … but what does it actually mean? The Guardian notes that […]
Bill Gross Interview: ZIRP Causes Too Much Debt, Too Many Zombies, Not Much Trickle-Down, Busted Pensions
Bill Gross Interview: ZIRP Causes Too Much Debt, Too Many Zombies, Not Much Trickle-Down, Busted Pensions In an Bloomberg Television interview Bill Gross of Janus Capital spoke with Bloomberg Television’s Trish Regan about the outlook for Federal Reserve policy, the U.S. economy and his objectives at Janus Capital. Key Quotes “Not even thin gruel is […]
Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire
Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire Three years after the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, citizens and the international community are left wondering if Japan really does have the situation in Fukushima under control…“TEPCO’s own engineers are clueless… nobody knows how much [radiation] is washing into the ocean.” …click on the above link to view the video… […]
Is Japan Preparing For War?
Is Japan Preparing For War? Back on October 7, 1940, more than a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum in his capacity as director of the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Far East Asia section, drafted what is now known as the “Eight Action Memo” (which can be read […]
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island The control of the commercials and the COMEX manipulators have is very depressing for the gold market investor. As soon as gold and the miners are about to get on another bullish leg, that the moving averages are positively aligned and re-crossing the 200-day MA, that the traders are standing […]
