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Tag Archives: Japan
The last decade’s debt record for several rich countries. 3-month Bond Yields owed by some of them: (SOURCE: Bloomberg) Japan .10% UK .41% Germany .28% US .04% And here’s one of the yield curves (US’): (Remember, higher … Continue reading
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January 23, 2012
Tagged basic facts, bonds, charts, cost, data, data visualisation, data visualization, data viz, debt, deficit, ecoonmics, facts, finance, Germany, government, Japan, markets, UK, US, yields
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[A] wall of fifty or sixty glass demijohns, wired tight against earthquakes, exhibit creatures from the [United East India] Company’s once-vast empire. A pickled dragon of Kandy…a slack-jawed viper of the Celebes…A baby alligator from Halmahera…The alligator’s umbilical cord is … Continue reading
There was a time, not that long ago, when Americans were obsessed with Japan. [Y]ou couldn’t enter an airport bookstore without encountering rows of dust jackets featuring rising suns and samurai warriors. Members of Japanese keiretsu…typically owned substantial quantities of … Continue reading
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September 5, 2011
Tagged banking, bubbles, crony capitalism, delta wave, depression, economic malaise, economics, economy, finance, heroes, history, Japan, real estate, recession, samurai, speculation, speculators, spiky, views that change over time, Western views of Asia, wisdom
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