Japan’s economy posted its first trade deficit since 1980. This is a country whose entire economic model has been based on exporting manufactured goods to the rest of the world. But for 2011, the Japanese ran a trade deficit of $2.6 billion.
January 25th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "japanese economy"
The Descent of Money
The first modern competition between gold and paper money ended like the pre-modern ones. Gold won. Herewith, a short summary:
February 1st, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 8 comments | Continued
Government Spending Makes People Poorer
In their view, government spending is actually BETTER than private spending. Why? Because it produces nothing of value. Really; we’re not making this up.
January 28th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Majority of Australians Believe House Prices Will Rise in Next Twelve Months
Now you have to assume a lot of income growth from here for affordability to remain the same with house prices at those levels. Or you’d have to assume much lower interest rates. That would be a stupid assumption, though, given that interest rates are headed up at the moment…
January 25th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 293 comments | Continued
Japan and its Economy Did Not Have Secret to Everlasting Success
Let’s see, in the 1980s Japan’s corporate leaders thought they were going to take over the world. Investors thought so too. They expanded. They wheeled. They dealed. Prices shot up and they all thought they were geniuses.
November 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 13 comments | Continued
Feds’ Plan is to Reflate the Economy
For that, they need rising consumer prices. Consumers need to borrow…and spend. They’ll do so, say economists, when prices rise and their dollars lose value. So far, milk and potatoes aren’t cooperating.
June 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
If the US Economy is Really Following Japan Things Will Get a Lot Worse
Internally, the Japanese are still not big spenders. The population is not only aging…it’s shrinking. That’s not happening in the United States. Thanks largely to its immigrants and Hispanics, the US population is expanding. But this new population is not the same as the old one.
May 22nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Jim Cramer Says The Depression is Over
But as far as we can tell, the rally is still underway. The G20 meeting is widely seen as a triumph. The money is flowing. People think we’ve seen the bottom.
April 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
The Plan that Prevents Plans
In that spirit, we present our plan to save the world. The plan is in no particular order. And all of its premised on one big important action to take at all costs: abolish the Federal Reserve and let there be a free market for money and a natural rate of interest.
February 18th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 16 comments | Continued
Recession for the Japanese Economy Once Again
The Japanese economy is once again in recession. As if the poor Japanese investor hadn’t had misery enough! He’s been beaten up for the last 18 years. He was whacked when Japan, Inc. went bust in 1990. He was smacked when stocks fell 70%- 90% during the ’90s. He was racked with pain when property collapsed to as little as one-tenth its late ’80s value. He was starved for yield when the Japanese Central Bank dropped its policy rate to zero…
November 24th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
