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The Next Country To Collapse Isn't In Europe
Yahoo Finance ^ | 4/26/13 | The Next Country To Collapse Isn't In Europe

Posted on 04/26/2013 1:40:46 PM PDT by Kartographer

look at this country's debt situation, especially relative to the United States, is truly amazing.

This country is paying 21% of government revenue on interest payments to support a 236% debt-to-GDP ratio. With annual spending twice as high as its revenue, the government is running a deficit of $455 billion a year and adding to its $11.2 trillion debt. This is all before the monetary stimulus programs announced recently by its central bank.

If you thought the United States government was a financial basket case, Japan is exponentially worse. A collapse in the yen and the stock market is all but certain -- the only question is when.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Japan
KEYWORDS: collapse; davidwilkerson; debt; economiccollapse; economy; gdp; japan
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Well well isn't that a fine kettle of sushi.
1 posted on 04/26/2013 1:40:46 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Since Europe is not a country, the headline makes no sense.


2 posted on 04/26/2013 1:51:32 PM PDT by svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
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To: Kartographer; blam; dennisw; TigerLikesRooster

Ping


3 posted on 04/26/2013 1:52:07 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Ping


4 posted on 04/26/2013 1:52:08 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: svcw

There is no grammatical or semantic problem with the title.


5 posted on 04/26/2013 1:54:29 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: svcw
Try reading it again:

The Next Country To Collapse Isn't In Europe
6 posted on 04/26/2013 1:56:27 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

This is like saying: “The next food I’m going to eat isn’t caviar!”


7 posted on 04/26/2013 1:58:21 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: svcw
Sure it does. You are reading it wrong. Either that or it has been changed since you posted that. It says not a country in Europe.
8 posted on 04/26/2013 1:58:50 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

When I first read the article on yahoo, it did not have the word “in”, you are correct the posting on FR is correct.
yahoo must have caught their error and changed the title.


9 posted on 04/26/2013 2:00:55 PM PDT by svcw (If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren't you alive when it starts.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Not really because you are stating a particular food. If you said the next food I will eat will not be a prtein then your statement would be similar.


10 posted on 04/26/2013 2:01:36 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

that should be protein.


11 posted on 04/26/2013 2:02:16 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: svcw

Oh okay, confusion understood.


12 posted on 04/26/2013 2:03:33 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

Oh? So caviar is a country, and protein a continent? I gotcha!


13 posted on 04/26/2013 2:04:22 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Kartographer

I knew it had to be Japan with Prime Minister Abe printing like he was Bernanke.


14 posted on 04/26/2013 2:05:03 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: svcw
"...In Europe"

"...In Europe"

"...In Europe"

So the headline makes sense after all.

15 posted on 04/26/2013 2:06:00 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Revolting cat!

What you got is a bad attitude, but hey who cares. Not me.


16 posted on 04/26/2013 2:06:09 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Kartographer

With economic collapse and increasing conflicts with China how far can it be before Japan begins an internal fomenting for militarization and political chauvinism not unlike its ultra-nationalist past?


17 posted on 04/26/2013 2:07:20 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Kartographer

Nothing that building a new navy won ‘t fix.


18 posted on 04/26/2013 2:23:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Revolting cat!
An economic collapse in Japan? Maybe the yen at 500 to a dollar?

PARTY TIME!

19 posted on 04/26/2013 2:25:02 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Travis McGee

One counterargument for Japan is they owe it to themselves. Japanese have always been enthusiastic buyers of their Gov’t debt. Now they will just buy more without being annoyed. Japan has good national unity unlike America and 99% of the people who live there are Japanese. Culturally they can handle this huge QE and very high debt levels


20 posted on 04/26/2013 2:30:12 PM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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