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Bull Theory @BullTheoryio 🚨The cheapest money in the world just got more expensive. The entire global financial system borrowed it. Japan’s 10-year bond yield just hit 2.564%, for the first time this century. Japan is one of the largest holders of U.S. Treasury bonds in the world. As Japanese yields rise and a BOJ rate …
via notayesmanseconomics Japan finds itself in a situation where it keeps making the economic news. Much of this is the result of the central planning it has employed over the years. I realise that for new readers this may be a bit of a shock, but the country that looks at times an example of …
Bond markets do not scream unless something is wrong. Japan cracking at a 26 year high while France and Germany follow is not a coincidence. This is the cost of pretending debt did not matter for a decade. Once the bond vigilantes wake up, they do not go back to sleep easily. https://twitter.com/GordianKnotFinX/status/2002947193347658025 Gold hits …
Thousands of people queued Tuesday at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens, a day after officials announced that its popular twin pandas will return to their homeland in China next month. Their departure will leave Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century. (AP video by Ayaka McGill)
Japan's government says it may "intervene" before the Japanese Yen to US Dollar ratio reaches 160. Over the last 2 months, the Yen has gone from 145 to 157 as a $110B+ stimulus package is coming byu/RobertBartus inEconomyCharts I agree, but does it really solve anything for Japan? With all the helicopter money, a demographic …
Japan is not blinking. Trade talks with the United States have dragged into July with no deal in sight, and Tokyo is holding its line. President Trump has labeled the Japanese “the spoiled ones,” frustrated by their refusal to concede on rice imports and auto tariffs. The original July 9 deadline for new tariffs has …
White House targets trade gap with pressure. 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 TRUMP TO JAPAN: BUY OUR OIL OR FACE THE TARIFF GODZILLA Trump’s mad that Japan ships millions of cars to the U.S. but won’t return the favor. His fix? Japan should start buying a whole lot more American oil and other stuff to shrink the trade …
via notayesmanseconomics It is time again to look East to Nihon to examine the news from the Bank of Japan.Plus an update on its hedge fund The Tokyo Whale. Let us start with what for us at least is the easy bit. The Bank will encourage the uncollateralized overnight call rate to remain at around …
🚨🌎 Would you eat 💩💩💩 to save the planet? “Edible Steaks made from Human Faeces” “Japanese Scientists collaborated with Tokyo Sewage – they discovered the mud contained high levels of protein” I bet you thought insects were bad enough? pic.twitter.com/ZvVT4ILhGB — Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) April 22, 2024 Just think they have been doing this since …