Stephen Roach Derides Central Bankers’ Mass Delusion
Authored by Stephen Roach, originally posted at Project Syndicate, The world economy is in the grips of a dangerous delusion. As the great boom that began in the 1990s gave way to an even greater bust,...
View ArticleDeflation Works!
Submitted by Bill Bonner via Acting-Man.com, The Coming Resolution We’ve been exploring how the credit bubble resolves itself. Inflation? Deflation? Are we locked in to a long, long period of...
View ArticleAbenomics Is 2 Years Old – Households Even Deeper In The Hole
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, For Japan, the comparisons for March 2015 estimates are going to be tough as the yearly look-back aligns to March 2014 and the great surge...
View ArticleHow Japan Became The Benchmark For America’s Fraudulent “Jobs Recovery”
It was one month ago when we showed how, thanks to a lot of statistical sleight of hand, Japan had completely “revised” one year of increasing nominal base wages to declining or flat at best,...
View ArticleThe Only Question That Matters In Today’s Markets
Submitted by Ben Hunt via Salient Partners' Epsilon Theory blog, Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.– Sigmund Freud (1886 – 1939) To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to...
View ArticleHow Japan’s Unemployment Rate Dropped Even As 280,000 People Lost Their Jobs
Back in August 2010, Zero Hedge was ostracized for daring to first point out the massive distortion to the US unemployment rate as a result of the collapse in the labor force participation rate, and...
View ArticleAbenomics Fail: Japanese Slack-Jawed At Oral Sex Price Deflation
Despite proclamations by Kuroda, Abe, and various other elected (and unelected) officials that the 'deflation mindset' is gone from Japan, it appears one segment of the population is keenly aware of...
View ArticleA First-Hand Account Of The Greek Bank Run
zerohedge.com / by Tom Winnifrith of Share Prophets / 05/31/2015 22:015 Witnessing the great bank run first hand as I deposit money in Greece Jim Mellon says that the Greeks should build a statue in my...
View ArticleFrom Money To Psychology, Japan Reveals The Basis Of Economic Policy Corruption
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, At some point in the middle of the last century, economics of money shifted to economics of psychology. When Milton Friedman wrote his 1963...
View ArticleBOJ’s Kuroda “Believes He Should Fly”, Says Central Bankers Should Think...
In a world of central bankers gone Keynesian crazy, one man stands alone. BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is running what is perhaps the greatest (or worst, depending on how one is predisposed to view...
View ArticleChina Mocks G7 As “Gathering Of Debtors”, Warns “Confrontation Will Be A...
Vladimir Putin didn’t get an invite to the Angela Merkel-hosted G7 Summit in Bavaria last week, which means the Russian President not only missed out on two days at the scenic Castle Elmau, but also on...
View ArticleAccording To Bank of America, This Is “The Biggest Risk To Global Equities”
On Monday evening we brought you “Bank Of America Begins 66-Day Countdown Until The ‘Ghost Of 1937′” Returns,” in which we discussed why, if history is any guide, a rate hike cycle will be a disaster...
View ArticleThe Instability Of The Global Game Of Central Bank Chicken
Submitted by Ben Hunt via Salient Partners' Epsilon Theory blog, I was at a conference, on deck for a presentation, and I had the chance to listen to the Q&A for the speaker ahead of me. “Assuming...
View ArticleAs The Nikkei 225 Spikes To 19 Year Highs; How Do You Say Deja Vu In Japanese?
With real incomes collapsing, approval ratings at record lows, and PMIs back in contraction; is it any surprise that the last thing standing for Shinzo Abe to “show” the world his ‘progress’ is the...
View ArticleThe Next Round of the Great Crisis Has Just Begun
As we have been noting throughout 2015 thus far: There is no recovery. There is only the bond bubble. And everything has been done to prop it up because when it bursts (as all bubbles do), entire...
View ArticleJapan’s Economic Disaster: Real Wages Lowest Since 1990, Record Numbers...
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, With so much attention rightly focused on China at the moment (see: Chinese Authorities Arrest Over 100 Human Rights Activists and Lawyers in...
View ArticleNext Week in the Context of the Big Picture
The global capital markets have entered a new phase. The transition has partly been obscured by the crisis in Greece and the sharp fall in Chinese shares. It is the policy response to those events...
View ArticleJapan Inc Rocked By Massive Accounting Fraud: Toshiba CEO Quits After...
While Abenomics has been an unmitigated disaster for Japan’s ordinary population, where the soaring stock market has benefited the top decile of the population while everyone has been slammed by a...
View ArticleAbenomics End Game: Thousands Protest In Downtown Tokyo, Demand Abe’s...
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 07/25/2015 18:21 Considering that Shinzo Abe’s first reign as prime minister of Japan lasted precisely one year from September 26, 2006 until September 26 of the...
View ArticleAbenomics End Game: Thousands Protest In Downtown Tokyo, Demand Abe’s...
Considering that Shinzo Abe’s first reign as prime minister of Japan lasted precisely one year from September 26, 2006 until September 26 of the following year, when he voluntarily resigned due to...
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