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“More Scarecrows Than People”: A Tragic Preview Of Japan’s Terminal Collapse
A few weeks ago it was revealed that the mystery person behind the latest bout of monetary (if not so much fiscal) insanity in Japan is none other than Paul Krugman, a fact which has since assured the...
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Futures Rebound, Crude “Flash Smashes” Higher As Dollar Strengthens
After the worst week for stocks in years, and following a significantly oversold condition, it will hardly come as a surprise that the mean reversion algos (if only to the upside), as well as the...
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25 Years After The “Top” In Japan, Have We Learned Anything?
The Japanese stock market reached its all-time-high on December 29th 1998, and as The Wall Street Journal reports, analysts were still looking forward to another strong year for shares in 1990, despite...
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Japan’s Pacific Rim Job: Build 250-Mile Anti-Tsunami Wall To Create Jobs
It appears Japanese policy-makers are getting inspiration from Hollywood for their latest economic ‘fixes’. Having begun the building of a giant ‘Game of Thrones’-esque ice-wall to hold back the...
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Officials Warn Senkakus Fall Under US Protection; Japan To Take “More...
Following meetings with Sec. of State John Kerry, Defense Sec. Ashton Carter, Japanese officials, it appears, have been shown the endgame now that the Keynesian farce is over… As AFP reports, Japan’s...
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Japan’s Pension System Hacked; 1.25 Million Identification Numbers, Birth...
There’s been quite a bit of talk recently about “cyberthreats” to the US. Back in April, Defense Secretary Ash Carter unveiled a new US strategy designed to combat a list of supposed “cyberadversaries”...
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Japan’s Nikkei Flash-Smashes 400 Points Higher In Milliseconds After 3...
Whether it is due to thin holiday liquidity, due to the BOJ intervening at its usual time just around the Japanese market open, because Japan’s “legendary” Twitter trader “CIS” just went bullish...
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Futures Surge Overnight As Deteriorating Economic Data Unleashes Blur Of...
Following yesterday’s perfectly expected, yet totally shocking Brazil downgrade to junk status by the S&P, the Emerging Market took its next leg down over concerns that the so far relatively...
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71-Year-Old Arrested For Widespread “Hitlerization” Of Shinzo Abe Posters
Having achieved his militarist goals, amid massive protests and plunging popularity, it appears Shinzo Abe is rapidly taking gaining on Vladimir Putin's spot atop the...
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Futures Jump Despite BOJ Disappointment, Weak Earnings Offset By Commodities...
The big overnight story was certainly the BOJ’s announcement at 11pm Eastern whether or not the Japanese central bank would boost QE. This is how we previewed it: “now all eyes to the BOJ when tonight...
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ZeroHedge: Abenomics Architect Resigns Amid Corruption, Bribery Allegations
Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food. Japan’s economy minister Akira Amari “searched his memory” and doesn’t recall putting an envelope of cash in...
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Mizuho CEO Warns Japan Sales Tax Delay Is “Admission Abenomics Has Failed”
It has not been a good “second coming” for Shinzo Abe, whose first stint as prime minister of Japan ended in disgrace in 2007 after an allegedly crippling bout of explosive diarrhea forced the...
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Global Stocks, US Futures Slide On Mediocre Manufacturing Data, Yen Surge
Following the latest set of global economic news, most notably a mediocre set of Chinese Official and Caixin PMIs, coupled with a mix of lackluster European manufacturing reports and an abysmal...
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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...
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Japanese 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...
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America’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...
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Warmongers 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...
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As 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...
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Abe’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...
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Abe’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...
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