Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Japan’s Highly Protected Insurance Industry Has Taxpayers On The Hook

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Japan’s Insurance industry isn’t only heavily distorted as a result of protectionism but likewise exposes taxpayers heavily to losses. Tha...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami In Pictures

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Below is an awesome picture which virtually illustrates of how man is seemingly helpless against wrath of nature. (please spare me the clima...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Integrating Asia: Japan-India Trade Pact

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More signs that Asia continues to deepen her trade ties with each other. This from the Japan Times Prime Minister Naoto Kan and visit...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Japan’s Lost Decade Wasn’t Due To Deflation But Stagnation From Massive Interventionism

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Many of you may be familiar with the idiom to “fit a square peg to a round hole”. This simply means, according the Free dictionary , “trying...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Marc Faber: China Next Shoe To Drop, Bullish Japan, Possible War Ahead

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Here is an audio of Dr. Marc Faber's latest interview (source Marc Faber ) some excerpts... China’s Imminent Implosion My guess is that ...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Emerging Labor Protectionism In Japan

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In 1850 Frederic Bastiat wrote in his prologue the magnificent must read essay, That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen ``In the depa...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Prospective Farming Boom: The Japan Experience

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Legendary investor Jim Rogers has repeatedly predicted that participants of the next global sunshine industry would be driving Lamborghinis ...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Has The Deleveraging Process Culminated? Where’s The Next Bubble?

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``Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.”- Horace, leading Roman lyric poet in Ars Poetica Gl...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Free Lunch Isn’t For Everyone, Ask Japan

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Pundits have long debated about why and how Japan’s policies (e.g. ZIRP, Quantitative Easing, Infrastructure spending, etc…) have failed to...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Short Lessons from the Fall of Japan

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Interesting article from Fool.com’s Bill Mann on “ Falling Like Japan ”, here is an excerpt (all highlights mine), ``In the aftermath of...
Monday, October 27, 2008

OFW Domestic Helpers Beware: The Home Robots Are Coming

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If Filipinos worried about a slowdown of remittances from a potential worldwide economic recession seems valid enough, household chores base...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Japan’s Nikkei As Indicator

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Japan is on the verge of breaking down from its major support levels. The Nikkei closed at 7,649 last Friday, compared to its previous low...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Fiscal Bailout, US Monetary Policies To Ensure Inflation Transmission To Global Economies

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``It seems clear that much of the current crisis has been exacerbated by mark-to-market accounting, which has created massive, and unnecessa...