Tag Archives: Japan

Economic Depression and the Asian Century

Discussion under Howard’s post regarding our Truly Great Leader’s truly mediocre poll numbers and truly impressive decline has trundled off into matters economic, partly as a result of RCAR’s link to a recent article reprising a theme that ought to be familiar to most here: That seemingly improved growth and sales numbers and an historic [...]

GAMECHANGER WATCH: “It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America”

The savings rate has crashed from 15pc in 1990 to near 2pc today, half America’s rate. Japan’s $1.5 trillion state pension fund (the world’s biggest) has become a net seller of government bonds this year, as it must to meet pay-out obligations. The demographic crunch has hit. The workforce [has] been contracting since 2005. Japan [...]

RE: J.E. Dyer on Political Vindication Radio – updated with audio

I’ll post the podcast for JED’s boffo performance on blog radio if and when it becomes available.  In the meantime, here’s a thread for anyone who cares to discuss the event or just wants to have proof later on that they knew her before she went commercial. UPDATE: Here’s the podcast – JED comes on [...]

Happy-happy chart of the day/month/year/decade..

Re Krugman sez: Click to enlarge. Now I’ll be the first to say that just because it happened that way before (and not just in the two historical cases cited, not by any means) doesn’t mean it has to happen that way again…

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