{"id":25894,"date":"2017-09-21T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25894"},"modified":"2017-09-21T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:02:09","slug":"japans-deflationary-mindset-grows-as-household-cash-hordes-reach-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25894","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s “Deflationary Mindset” Grows As Household Cash Hordes Reach Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan’s “Deflationary Mindset” Grows As Household Cash Hordes Reach Record High<\/a><\/h3>\n
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After being force-fed more stimulus than John Belushi, and endless rounds of buying any and every asset that dares to expose any cracks in the potemkin village of fiat folly, Japan remains stuck firmly in what Abe feared so many years ago – a “deflationary mindset.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Bloomberg reports, cash and deposits held by Japanese households rose for 42nd straight quarter<\/strong> at the end of June as the nation\u2019s consumers continued to favor saving over spending. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The “deflationary mindset” that the Bank of Japan is battling to overcome was also evident in the money laying idle in corporate coffers,<\/strong> which stayed near an all-time high, according to quarterly flow of funds data released by the BOJ on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Still, as Bloomberg optimistically notes, with the economy expanding much faster than its potential growth rate, greater inflationary pressures could be on the way<\/strong>, which may prompt a shift in behavior by consumers and companies… or not!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan’s “Deflationary Mindset” Grows As Household Cash Hordes Reach Record High After being force-fed more stimulus than John Belushi, and endless rounds of buying any and every asset that dares to expose any cracks in the potemkin village of fiat folly, Japan remains stuck firmly in what Abe feared so many years ago – a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57,83,1035,202,426,452,4915,1615,4318],"class_list":["post-25894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bank-of-japan","tag-bloomberg","tag-cash","tag-deflation","tag-inflation","tag-japan","tag-saving","tag-spending","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25896,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894\/revisions\/25896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}