[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[WVNight]

Uhoh not good. This makes me wonder even more if China is not fudging their current numbers.

[lacrew]

Get them a stimulus package....oh, never mind.

[WVNight]

Nevermind, I now see your post about China.

[Dick Holmes]

The Japanese gloom was replicated in Taiwan, Asia’s sixth-largest economy. In January exports fell by 44.1 per cent from a year ago, the biggest decline since government records began in 1972. It was the fifth consecutive month that exports have shrunk.

Bush's fault!

[traumer]

[GeronL]

Obama is devaluing our currency with what now looks like $3.5 trillion in stimulus and bailouts. Just printing money. and they are just getting started.

The value of new dollars is sucked from old dollars.

currency devaluation

[wardaddy]

cars mostly?

[Uri’el-2012]

The Japanese have been trying to "fix" their economy since 1987.

They are using the same technique as we now are.

Twenty years and it's not fixed yet.

[B-Chan]

Our “exchange daughter” (former high school exchange student, now grown-up college student) will be here in a week’s time to spend a month with us. News like this makes me want to beg her to stay. Things may be bad in the US but here in Texas there’s plenty of farmland and oil and gas; even if the crap really hits the fan, we’ll get by. Japan, on the other hand, is a chain of rocky islands with little arable land and no oil whatsoever. I feel she’s safer here with us.

Of course, she has a real, biological family back in Japan, and I suppose they (and we) will muddle through somehow. Still, I’d feel better with all my chicks under my wing.

[lafroste]

The warning from Kazuo Momma

From kazu-YO MOMMA? That's a bit of a stretch.

[eclecticEel]

How any country expects to have a growing economy without a growing population is beyond me.

[RegulatorCountry]

Export manufacturing economies are dropping like a rock, and here we sit, a nation of debt-addled, maxxed out spendthrifts, with an economy that is at least 70% consumer spending, but with severely curtailed spending ... and yet we’re not in as bad a shape? At least, not yet?

It’s mindboggling.

[RedMonqey]

Japan, where industrial output plunged a record 9.6 per cent month on month in December...

Damn!! Bush's devious policies are destroying every nation's economies.

Must have been all the tax cuts for rich Americans that put Japan's into the dumpster.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

It appears that the September 16th effort to sabotage the US economy to ensure the electoral victory of the Democratic Party was a tad too successful.

[rmlew]

Who is going to buy our debt?
Oil is at 39, so it won’t be the Arabs. Russia remains Russia. The entire EU is almost as bad off as we. And china, well I expect mass rioting followed by serious bloodshed.