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The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025
The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Japan Pushes Back on U.S. Pressure to Halt Russian Energy Imports | OilPrice.com Demystifying Collapse Western Media Finally Admit That Trump’s Mobilisation of Forces Against Venezuela Is All About Regime Change | […]
The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses
The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses Last October, when the wounds from the March 2023 bank failures – which surpassed the global financial crisis in total assets and which sparked the latest Fed intervention, setting the market’s nadir over the past 16 […]
Dominoes: After NYCB, Shares Of Japanese Bank Implode On Massive US CRE Writedown
Dominoes: After NYCB, Shares Of Japanese Bank Implode On Massive US CRE Writedown Following a profit warning from New York Community Bancorp on Wednesday, partially attributed to turmoil in the commercial real estate sector, Japan’s Aozora Bank Ltd. slashed the value of some of its US office tower loans by more than 50%, according to Bloomberg. New York […]
Fukushima Daiichi adds Insult to Injury for the Pacific’s Coral Reefs.
Fukushima Daiichi adds Insult to Injury for the Pacific’s Coral Reefs. As the El Niño builds to a terrifying crescendo, that won’t peak before April 2024, the Pacific’s Coral Reefs will become stressed, and a bleaching event will unfold as it did in the 2016 El Niño. What is our response? TEPCO and the Japanese government […]
Japan Tried to Build a Hydrogen Society. It Backfired Spectacularly.
Japan Tried to Build a Hydrogen Society. It Backfired Spectacularly. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Andriy Onufriyenko//Getty Images Japan has long been a leader in hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology. Companies like Toyota plan to build entire cities entirely powered by hydrogen. A new report from an environmental think-tank argues that Japan is investing in […]
Japan Is Perhaps the Most Important Risk in the World
Japan Is Perhaps the Most Important Risk in the World Speculation is mounting that the Bank of Japan is losing control of the bond market. Jim Grant, editor of «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», believes this could trigger a shock to the global financial system. He also explains why he expects further surges in inflation and […]
Top Marine General In Japan Bluntly Describes US Is “Setting The Theatre” For Future War With China
Top Marine General In Japan Bluntly Describes US Is “Setting The Theatre” For Future War With China The top Marine Corps General for Japan this week issued some very revealing statements in an interview focused on countering China in the Financial Times. Despite Chinese leadership insisting that the Taiwan and Ukraine situations are not comparable, this […]
11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertain
11 years later, fate of Fukushima reactor cleanup uncertain Tanks storing treated radioactive water after it was used to cool the melted fuel are seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 3, 2022. The government has announced plans to […]
Japan’s Economy Is Again Struggling
Japan’s Economy Is Again Struggling Japan. the world’s third-largest economy is highly dependent on exports and the reality it is still struggling even after a great deal of America’s stimulus money leaked into buying imported goods speaks volumes. While it feels a bit like ancient history, Japan’s GDP contracted at an annualized rate of 28.8 […]
Extreme ocean-effect snow buries parts of Japan beneath seven feet, with more coming
Extreme ocean-effect snow buries parts of Japan beneath seven feet, with more coming The nation was sandwiched in between record-breaking weather systems. The American GFS model simulates heavy snow targeting Japan during the next week. (WeatherBell) Barely two weeks after a prolific ocean-effect snowstorm dropped seven feet of snow and stranded thousands of motorists, the new […]
Fukushima To Dump 1 Million Tons Of Radioactive Water Into Pacific
Fukushima To Dump 1 Million Tons Of Radioactive Water Into Pacific Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is expected to release more than one million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the destroyed nuclear power plant into the ocean after the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, according to the Asian Nikkei Review. More than one thousand […]
Japan Embraced Debt As a Way Out of Its Budget Crisis. It’s Not Working.
JAPAN EMBRACED DEBT AS A WAY OUT OF ITS BUDGET CRISIS. IT’S NOT WORKING. The sudden resignation of Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led to evaluations of his so-called Abenomics. Many have praised Abe’s aggressive monetary policy because the long shopping list of the Bank of Japan (government bonds, corporate bonds, ETFs and real […]
Is War With China Becoming Inevitable?
Is War With China Becoming Inevitable? Tensions are rising between the U.S. and China, as the list of ideological, political and economic clashes continues to lengthen. And there is a transparent new reality: China seems in no mood to back down. “The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Secretary of State […]
Japan’s QE On Verge Of Failure As Nobody Wants To Sell To The BOJ
Japan’s QE On Verge Of Failure As Nobody Wants To Sell To The BOJ Over a decade since central bankers started a stealthy nationalization of capital markets by purchasing a wide range of securities from Trasuries, to MBS, to corporate bonds, to ETFs and single stocks, their actions are finally catching up to them, and […]
Next Economic Downturn May Last Forever And A Day
Next Economic Downturn May Last Forever And A Day Market Manipulation Has Created Big Problems Based on how Japan has fared over the last several decades it is difficult to see the green shoots of a global economic spring forth as a result of lower interest rates. In fact, the next economic downturn will likely […]
