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Japan Plunges Into Deep Recession; GDP Shrinks 3.5% Annualized

By Mish   Follow   Sun, 11 Nov 2012, 11:13pm   537 views   7 comments
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Japan Plunges Into Deep Recession; GDP Shrinks 3.5% Annualized; Japan Current Account Turns Negative First Time in 30 Years; Watch the Yen
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/11/japan-plunges-into-deep-recession-gdp.html
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1. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 14 threads 2,812 comments

   1   11:34pm Sun 11 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Mish says Japan Plunges Into Deep Recession; GDP Shrinks 3.5% Annualized; Japan Current Account Turns Negative First Time in 30 Years; Watch the Yen maybe just maybe this will help our US industries move tech mfg back to the US. push prices back up. certainly would help drive, semi and semi mfg cos. not to mention many other including consumer and industrial industries.

2. Bellingham Bill Follow Befriend 29 threads 1,472 comments Bellingham, WA Premium

   2   5:16am Mon 12 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Protected   why didn't I study norwegian and/or swedish instead in school dammit. when I started my first year of Japanese the nikkei was just topping out, moving from 34,000 to 39,000 that quarter (it's under 9000 now). the BS that was allowed to go on was unbelievable. and the Japanese right-wingers are total idiots for picking a fight over those islands off the Chinese coast this year. I have no idea how they're going to be able to raise taxes to actually pay off their one quadrillion yen national debt. I guess the dirty secret of national debts are that they are supposed to be inflated away, not paid. That's what happened to our postwar debt 1945-1980. There's plenty of land value to confiscate via higher taxes, but that's the last thing the tax authority wants to do, rob asset value, since people hate that more than paying taxes.

3. lostand confused Follow Befriend (9) 159 threads 1,525 comments Premium

   3   5:32am Mon 12 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   This is what, the 5th recession in 15 years??

4. APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich Follow Befriend (28) 168 threads 4,148 comments Premium

   4   6:07am Mon 12 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (3)   Dislike   Protected   They need to deregulate the financial services industry and pass a rape amendment.

5. John Bailo Follow Befriend 93 threads 431 comments Kent, WA John Bailo's website

   5   6:28am Mon 12 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   I've heard their population might drop by half in the next 50 years. So a small percentage decline is actually a net increase for the younger generation.

6. zzyzzx Follow Befriend (9) 410 threads 4,107 comments Baltimore, MD

   6   7:06am Mon 12 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   John Bailo says I've heard their population might drop by half in the next 50 years. OK, so they will go down to around 1929 population levels in another 50 years and will still be too crowded.

7. Bellingham Bill Follow Befriend 29 threads 1,472 comments Bellingham, WA Premium

   7   9:49am Mon 12 Nov 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   John Bailo says I've heard their population might drop by half in the next 50 years. ~20%, down to 100M in 2050. Compared to now, population of 0-14 will fall from 17M to 10M, 15-64 80M to 50M, and 65+ rise from 30M to 35M. This is an unprecedented (gradual) down-sizing of an over-crowded country that was at one time the most prosperous in the world. By absolute measures they still are the wealthiest, with a +$3.2T in global ownership balance (it owns the world that much more than it owes the world). Note how their rise in seniors though isn't THAT big a deal. Another 5M from here over decades. We're adding 30M in the next 20 years. http://facts.kff.org/chart.aspx?cb=58&sctn=170&ch=1808