Whence, The Economic Miracle?

Japan's banks lent more, with less regard for quality of the borrower, than anyone else’s. In doing so they helped inflate the bubble economy to grotesque proportions. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ June 23, 2023 |  [View Online]( |  [Sign Up]( Whence, The Economic Miracle? “They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.” —William Shakespeare The Japanese economy is built different. As of May 19, the inflation rate year over year over there was 3.5%. Compare that number to the American inflation rate of 4.05% in May, 4.93% in April month and 8.58% last year. POWERED BY CRYPTO 101 Why Hedge Funds Are Migrating To Crypto At Breakneck Speed In 2023 If you were unfortunate enough to miss the three boom periods of years past, the next 3-6 months could right the course of your financial future as the experts are pointing to 2023-2024 being the next boom cycle for crypto. These events will be explored, as 20+ of the world's top Hedge Fund Managers will discuss crypto's hottest opportunities at [The Crypto Hedge Fund Summit.]( [Click here for free registration now.]( CONTINUED... Fellow G7 members also can’t compare to Japan’s low inflation standards: Plotted against the rest of the G7 countries, Japan stands out as having negative interest rates until 2021, and only just now beginning to encroach upon the pack in 2023. (Source: Refinitiv Comparable Economics) You’d think, by the current logic of the Powell Fed, that Japan’s low inflation means they have kept consistently high interest rates. In fact, Japan has a history of negative interest rates for the last three decades—and still sees incredibly low inflation compared to the rest of the world. Their unique economic conundrum—so different from the one the American experiment faces—is demographic primarily. For one, we know that Japanese consumers (and companies) are “persistent savers.” Their approach to saving has been commodified for Western minds in books on “the Kakeibo method,” a Japanese budgeting system that teaches you how to manually track your spending through journaling and other reflective practices to help reign in your own spending. Kakeibo is, let’s just say, different from your average American, “let’s take out a loan, buy a boat and dock in Oahu for the summer” mentality. In Japan more than one in four people are 65 or over. That is 28.7% of the population, making up 36.17 million—nearly the entire population of Poland! That’s a sizable chunk of sushi eaters. Remember Japan’s “Economic Miracle” during the 1980s? In short, after a record period of economic growth after the Second World War, Japan rapidly became the world's second-largest economy. But population growth began to stagnate. The workforce ceased to expand. By the 1990s, the Japanese economy had hit a wall. Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, attempted to counter Japan's economic stagnation with “Abenomics”—a monetary policy hinged on a super easy central bank, and a financial mechanism known as the “window guidance.” As economist Paul Krugman explained: “Japan's banks lent more, with less regard for quality of the borrower, than anyone else’s. In doing so they helped inflate the bubble economy to grotesque proportions.” POWERED BY DEMISE OF THE DOLLAR CONTINUED... Shinzo Abe was assassinated on July 8, 2022 while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Japan. There is yet more to learn from his economic specter; low interest rates continue to be the Japanese monetary policy of choice. Fast forward to today’s “economic miracle”... Mr. Haruhiko Kuroda, 31st Governor of the Bank of Japan, said that “under the current economic conditions, it’s appropriate to continue monetary easing.” Advocacy of the central bank's super easy monetary policy continues. (Source: Statista) “In order to bring inflation in Japan down,” adds Stefan Angrick, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics in Japan, “you would have to slow demand rather sharply, and that’s tricky because demand was already sort of weak [in Japan] relative to other economies.” The Bank of Japan’s monetary policy contrasts sharply with that of the European Central Bank, which raised borrowing costs to a 22-year high on Thursday. World-wide inflation is not an issue for the Bank of Japan. In fact, they want good inflation—the kind created by lively consumer demand, not stimulative monetary policy—and as of this week, they have shown they are committed to achieving it. Follow your bliss, Addison Wiggin The Wiggin Sessions P.S. Persistently low interest rates in Japan present a unique opportunity known as the “carry trade”. We saw this in the mid-2000s, too. 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