Japan Enters Its Death Spiral
- Japan Enters Its Death Spiral
by John Rubino, https://rubino.substack.com/
Japan has been a big topic in this newsletter because it illustrates the no-win situation in which wildly overindebted countries eventually find themselves. Here are two articles that illustrate the point:
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How a Country Goes Bankrupt, In 10 Steps
Japan Is In That Box
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Now For The Death Spiral
Confronted with both a plunging yen and rising interest rates, Japan was recently forced to address one of those potential crises. It chose to protect the yen by raising short-term interest rates and using the dollars in its foreign exchange reserve to buy yen. This arrested the yen’s decline:
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