“Something Big” Indeed Came – Bernanke’s Japan Visit Unveils “Helicopter Money”, Sparks Monster Rally

• “Something Big” Indeed Came – Bernanke’s Japan Visit Unveils “Helicopter Money”, Sparks Monster Rally
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  When we first heard this past Thursday that private blogger and Citadel employee Ben Bernanke was going to “secretly” meet with both the BOJ’s Haruhiko Kuroda and Japan PM Abe, we warned readers that “something big was coming.”
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  As noted late last week, “Bernanke will be in Japan next week. It has been arranged for him to meet officials including Abe and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, according to a government official speaking on condition of anonymity. Bernanke is expected to discuss Brexit and the BOJ’s negative interest rate policy with Abe and Kuroda, the official said.” Reuters also added that “some market players speculate Kuroda might decide, in a surprise, to provide “helicopter money.”
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  It would appear that something else discussed was the first iteration of helicopter money, because the catalyst that sent both the Nikkei soaring and the Yen tumbling, was not so much Kuroda’s whirlwind victory in Japan’s latest election – largely as expected – but Abe’s announcement that he may proceed with launching a JPY10 trillion stimulus, funded by Japan’s first new major debt issuance in four years. From Bloomberg:
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