{"id":1803,"date":"2014-11-19T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:04:54","slug":"bank-of-japan-warns-abe-over-fiscal-responsibility-while-monetizing-all-its-debt-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1803","title":{"rendered":"Bank Of Japan Warns Abe Over &#8220;Fiscal Responsibility&#8221; While Monetizing All Its Debt | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-11-19\/bank-japan-warns-abe-over-fiscal-responsibility-while-monetizing-all-its-debt\">Bank Of Japan Warns Abe Over &#8220;Fiscal Responsibility&#8221; While Monetizing All Its Debt | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><em>If one were to look up the definition of hypocrisy, the image of BoJ head Kuroda should be front-and-center.<\/em>\u00a0Having tripled-down on his money-printing and ETF-buying largesse just last week, he came out swinging last night at the government&#8217;s fiscal irresponsibility blasting Abe&#8217;s policies by saying Japan&#8217;s fiscal health &#8220;is the responsibility of parliament and the government, not an issue for the central bank to be held responsible for.&#8221; Aside from the fact that he is directly monetizing all JGB issuance &#8211; thus enabling Abe&#8217;s arrogant fiscal stimulus plan (by issuing 30Y and 40Y debt),<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-19\/kuroda-says-onus-on-lawmakers-to-tackle-debt-after-abe-tax-delay.html\">Bloomberg notes<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Kuroda is making it crystal clear the government has to tackle the debt problem and if fiscal trust is lost that\u2019s not going to be on the BOJ.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The world has truly gone mad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">Seemingly paying the same lip-service as Bernanke and Yellen in the US and Draghi in Europe, BoJ&#8217;s Haruhiko Kuroda is carefully positioning the blame for lack of growth and economic chaos on the government&#8217;s lack of growth-oriented policies&#8230; and not the central bank&#8217;s enabling experiments&#8230;<em style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-19\/kuroda-says-onus-on-lawmakers-to-tackle-debt-after-abe-tax-delay.html\">(via Bloomberg)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank Of Japan Warns Abe Over &#8220;Fiscal Responsibility&#8221; While Monetizing All Its Debt | Zero Hedge. 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