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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 […]
Bank Of Japan Buys Record Amount Of ETFs, Admits ‘Paper Losses’, Plans Program Expansion
Bank Of Japan Buys Record Amount Of ETFs, Admits ‘Paper Losses’, Plans Program Expansion Having blown over two trillion yen since October in purchasing stocks (ETFs) in the open market to “support Japan’s economy,” markets are rife with speculation the Band of Japan (BoJ) could pledge next week to buy ETFs at a faster pace than […]
Trump Offered to Suspend Sanctions While Negotiating With Iran, Khamenei Rejected the Offer: More Attacks Expected
TRUMP OFFERED TO SUSPEND SANCTIONS WHILE NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN, KHAMENEI REJECTED THE OFFER: MORE ATTACKS EXPECTED Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo conveyed a message from US President Donald Trump to the Iranian leadership, asking the release of 5 US prisoners and inviting Iran to sit around a negotiation table, adding “he [Donald Trump] would be ready to suspend […]
Iran FM: “Suspicious Doesn’t Begin To Describe” Attack On Japanese Tanker During Abe’s State Visit
Iran FM: “Suspicious Doesn’t Begin To Describe” Attack On Japanese Tanker During Abe’s State Visit With the words “Gulf of Tonkin” trending on Twitter this morning at a moment that a senior American defense official told CBS News that “it’s highly likely Iran caused these attacks,” it appears the general public is not even close to buying the claim that Iran attacked two […]
Trump Commits To Using “Nuclear Capabilities” To Defend US Terroritory, Allies
Trump Commits To Using “Nuclear Capabilities” To Defend US Terroritory, Allies In what we believe is a significant escalation and potentially a hint as to the president’s thinking, President Trump said during a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the US remains committed to defending its territories and allies using all “diplomatic, […]
Japan Prepares For North Korea “Emergency”
Japan Prepares For North Korea “Emergency” Judging by the precautionary actions of North Korea’s neighbors, the next 48 hours on the Korean peninsula could see substantial volatility, because at the same time as China’s largest carrier was said to suspend flights to Pyongyang, the Japanese government has asked the U.S. to provide advance consultation if […]
Turning Stones Into Bread – The Japanese Miracle
Turning Stones Into Bread – The Japanese Miracle Stuffing the Futon Our friend Ramsey Su just asked what Haruhiko Kuroda and Shinzo Abe are going to do now in light of the strong yen (aside from perhaps doing the honorable thing). Isn’t it time to just “wipe out some debt with the stroke of a pen”? The […]
Failure of Abenomics
Failure of Abenomics Abenomics (アベノミクス Abenomikusu ?) in Japan are the economic policies advocated by Shinzō Abe since the December 2012 general election, which elected Abe to his second term as Prime Minister of Japan. Abenomics is based upon “three arrows” of fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms. This has been a complete failure as the economy continue […]
Krugman Goes To Japan, Scolds Abe For Worrying About Quadrillion Yen Debt Pile, Leaves
Krugman Goes To Japan, Scolds Abe For Worrying About Quadrillion Yen Debt Pile, Leaves Much like BoJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda, Paul Krugman thinks that the key for Japan when it comes to overcoming decades of deflation is a positive outlook. “Japan needs to reach a point where everyone believes that it has pulled out of […]
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War”
Japan’s Finance Minister Accidentally Reveals How It All Ends: “War” While this all started with a currency “war,” it seems – according to a stunningly candid transcript of Japan’s finance minister’s conversation with none other than Paul Krugman – that the real endgame here is actual war. Aso remarked that “a similar [deflationary mindset] had occurred in the […]
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout
Five Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout The environmental impacts of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are already becoming apparent, according to a new analysis from Greenpeace Japan, and for humans and other living things in the region, there is “no end in sight” to the ecological fallout. The report warns that […]
Japanese Government Cracks Down Hard on the Media Amid Pitiful Economic Performance
Japanese Government Cracks Down Hard on the Media Amid Pitiful Economic Performance Their imminent departure from evening news programmes is not just a loss to their profession; critics say they were forced out as part of a crackdown on media dissent by an increasingly intolerant prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and his supporters. Only last week, the […]
Haruhiko Kuroda – The Pressure to “Do More” Rises
Haruhiko Kuroda – The Pressure to “Do More” Rises BoJ Leaves Policy Unchanged, but What Comes Next? The Bank of Japan has employed QE programs since March of 2001 (in February of 2001, it still claimed that “QE will be ineffective” – it was right then, for the last time). These have had no effect […]
When The Advanced Keynesian Disease Afflicts A Nation—–Japan’s Abe Goes Full Fantasy-tard With 3 New ‘Arrows’
When The Advanced Keynesian Disease Afflicts A Nation—–Japan’s Abe Goes Full Fantasy-tard With 3 New ‘Arrows’ Having completed his militarist plans, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to have gone full fantasy-tard with his latest “plans” for the demographically-dead and debt-destroyed nation. “Creating a strong economy will continue to be my top priority,” Abe said, a goal […]
Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal
Abe Reaches his Militarist Goal Japan’s House of Councilors Briefly Transforms into Rada Outpost Pictures such as those below used to primarily reach us from Ukraine’s Rada, back before Poroshenko’s “lustration law” banned about four million Ukrainian citizens from the political process forever. In Ukraine, brawls regularly broke out between Western Ukrainian nationalists and representatives […]
