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010814 |
htm |
WSJ |
Bank Floods Cash Japan
- The Bank of Japan voted Tuesday to ease its grip on credit
further in a bid to put a lid on the nation's economic deterioration and
help buoy falling stock prices [This means public support of a private
inflationary bubble for a few people--RSB].
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011219 |
htm |
WSJ |
Grads Face Zero Japan
- [Need for 24in4--RSB]
- If I'm still a part-timer when I'm 25, I'm in big trouble,"
- The media have dubbed these serial part-timers "freeters" -- a Japanese
neologism combining the English word free and Arbeiter, the German word for
worker. It means anyone who chooses to make a living by juggling part-time
work.
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020129 |
htm |
WSJ |
Savings Strong Japan
- With hundreds of trillions of yen on the line,
economists are watching the movement of Japan's money closely. A real shift
in how the Japanese allocate their assets could reshape the financial map
in Japan and the rest of the world. Among the potential effects: It could
push up global stock prices and drive down the yen.
- 1,400 trillion yen ($10.36
trillion
- "If Japanese investors don't get a
competitive rate of return, [their money] will go to where it's treated well,
not treated badly," U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told reporters in
Tokyo last week.
- Yet the Japanese depositor's plight is not
quite as bad as it seems at first glance. Prices fell 0.7% last year -- their
third straight annual decline -- meaning the country's savers received a
real return on their money that was closer to 1%.
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020314 |
htm |
NYT |
Penny Interest1000 Dollars
- The most popular alternative — bank savings,
which account for half of Japan's $10.5 trillion in financial assets —
lost much of their appeal as interest rates shrank, recently to as little
as 0.02 percent a year. On Monday, Shizuoka Bank said it would cut its interest
rate for ordinary savings accounts to 0.001 percent from 0.005 percent; that
move means that savers will get 1 cent in interest annually for each $1,000
on deposit.
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020320 |
htm |
WSJ |
Economist Criticism Shorts In Japan Hubbard
- "I do not understand the need for new restrictions
and tighter supervision of short-selling of equities, particularly when they
are introduced before market participants and the exchanges have their systems
in place to ensure compliance," [was compliance. Govt said no shorts, so
Japanese brokers executed no shorts.] Mr. Hubbard said, according to a transcript
of his remarks released by the U.S. Embassy. "This can only distort
the valuable signals sent by the equity market, reducing liquidity and dulling
the positive reception that true reform measures would
receive."
- [bullshit--what valuable signals?
seems increased liquidity from rising prices ... what "dulling the positive
reception that true reform measures would receive." What happened was Japan
closed the on door of decapitalism (shorting) that waste time and money and
creates instability that is the cannon fodder of stock brokers.--RSB]
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020419 |
htm |
WSJ |
Deflation Slowing Japan
- If true, that could be one of the most encouraging signs in a decade
in which Japan has been ravaged by an unremitting slide in the prices first
of stocks, then land, and finally goods and services
- Japan's key consumer and wholesale-price indexes are still falling
steadily compared with the year before. But on a month-to-month basis, domestic
wholesale prices were flat in March after nosing up 0.1% in February for
the first rise in six months. And core consumer prices in Tokyo -- seen as
an early indication of the direction of prices in the rest of the country
-- climbed 0.1% in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the second straight
monthly rise.
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021125 |
htm |
Fortune |
Horror Show Japan Bad Journalism
- [Reviewed]
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030224 |
htm |
PeoplesDaily |
Oil Reserves172days
- Now Japan's
strategic oil reserve has reached 0.6bn barrels, equivalent to the total
oil demand for 172 days.
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