NIRP Goes Political For Japan’s Abe As Opposition Party Demands “Withdrawal...
It's taken roughly five months, but in addition to having skeptics within the BoJ, NIRP has now encountered political opposition. Ahead of an Upper House election next month, Shiori Yamao, a former...
View ArticleJapanese Finance Minister Reminds Elderly “Hurry Up & Die”
Everyone knows that Japan, whose population is now declining for the first time in its history… …sold more adult than baby diapers for the first time in 2012, and is "older" than any nation in the...
View ArticleAmerica’s One-Party Government
Submitted by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic-Culture.org Today’s United States is a more realistic version of the type of society that George Orwell fictionally described in his allegorical...
View ArticleWarmongers Delight: Abe Hits Super-Majority With Sweeping Victory In Japan...
Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The warmongers and gun manufacturers are cheering today as Shinzo Abe Wins Sweeping Victory in Japan Elections. Shinzo Abe has won a sweeping victory in...
View ArticleAs Obama Plans Retaliation Against “Russian Hacking”, A Problem Emerges
In a fiery press conference on Friday, shortly before departing for his last Hawaiian vacation, president Obama accused the press of being responsible for Hillary Clinton’s loss, slammed “domestic...
View ArticleAbe’s Party Suffers “Historic Defeat” In Tokyo Elections, USDJPY Slides
On Sunday Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party suffered what Reuters called a “historic defeat” in the Tokyo assembly election, losing to an upstart outfit in an vote that is seen as a...
View ArticleAbe’s Days Numbered? DB Warns Japan PM “May Be Forced Out” Leading To Spike...
Almost exactly ten years ago, on September 12, 2007 Japan’s current prime minister Shinzo Abe resigned less than a year into a tenure dogged by scandals, the suicide of a minister, a raft of...
View ArticleS&P Futures Flat, Spain Rebounds, Nikkei Closes At 21 Year High
S&P500 futures point to a slightly lower open, as Asian stocks rise to trade near decade highs, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 closing at highest since 1996. European stocks are little changed, with...
View ArticleKey Events And FX Week Ahead: Central Banks Send Markets Into A Coma, Someone...
European politics returns with a bang this week, when not only will attention be focused on Austria to see if the right wing Freedom Party joins the People's Party in a historic governing coalition, in...
View ArticleExit Polls Project Sweeping Victory, Supermajority For Japan’s Abe
As widely expected, Japan Prime Minister Abe’s ruling coalition is set for a sweeping victory in Sunday’s general election, and may retain the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to revise Japan’s...
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