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.
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so “greece” is not a country in Europe; what about Spain, or Italy??
No; THEY ARE, each one, “a country in Europe”; Japan is not.
There’s nothing wrong with the title.
“The next food I’m going to eat isn’t caviar!”
Fine, it’s not caviar; so what is it?
I totally agree with Kartographer that Japan should be the first country to economically collapse based on the numbers but God showed David Wilkerson in “The Vision” (1972) that some European or Mediterranean country would default and start a bank run and Japan would shortly be the second country to fall. Evidently Mexico falls in about two more weeks and starts a run on USA banks which collapses US the next day. If/when this happens, people should expect the rest of the vision to also happen.
Wow for all practical purposes Japan’s economy has been in the crapper since their real estate/ market crash back in about 1990 or so. 22 years of tough times. And now this....Wow.
If you look at the yield curve on Japans debt, it goes from basically 0.12% at 2 years to 1.60% on their 30 year bonds.
Who is buying 30 year Japanese debt at 1.60% yield ?
It is being bought by Japan’s major exporters with the understanding that the BOJ will continue to devalue the currency in order to help them sell more stuff.
This market is on eggshells. Any break in confidence in the ability to keep this going will send the borrowing costs for the BOJ through the roof. While I have not done the math, others have, just the slightest break will send them over the edge.
Check out Kyle Bass, and some of what he has been saying.
I figured us, and then finally Germany would be the last two dominoes to fall. But as you state in a high tech world, a full global bank run could happen in 24-36 hours.
I have seen caviar, and it looks like a lot of things I wouldn't eat.
Japan’s stock market crashed more than 75% since 1989, so the author is a bit late to the party.
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?.. probably this is a good time to have two or three months of normal living expences of cash in the home safe... something Glenn Beck emphatically suggested about two weeks back.
They can’t afford it.
No men, no money.
And, frankly, no point in militarization. Back in the last century there was some argument that a colonial empire was a good idea, economically. More resources, more people, captive markets meant more power and more prosperity for the rulers. Since then it has become clear that this was pretty pointless. For the most part the big payoff in prosperity comes from peoples per-capita productivity and not acreage or headcount of the uncooperative subjects.
Colonialism didn’t pay, if the international system was such that it could protect your country from resource shortages and keep global markets mostly open.
Mexico is in better financial shape than the US.
Underlying problem seems to be demographic/cultural, and the economic effects are just one result.
And even more to the point, that's also why the Euro makes bad sense.
Cash, gold, ammo, water, food, concertina wire, batteries.....
etc etc etc
I agree. Their social glue is still stronger.
Ours is ready to turn from honey to nitro glycerin in about two weeks.
So does chocolate pudding.....
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