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  • The Bond Market Vigilantes Gather for a Lynching in Japan by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    The bond market vigilantes are gathering up for a lynching in Japan. Five year credit default swaps have jumped from 38 to 78 basis points since September, a move similar to the one that took AIG down last year, as institutions scramble to buy insurance before the house burns down. The rating... More »
    November 20, 2009 • JEQ, AAXJ, DNL
  • Special "End of Japan" Issue by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    Having spent a decade living in Japan sharing shoe box sized apartments, living on fish heads, rice, and instant ramen, I am something of an authority on that enchanting country. I spent the seventies toiling away learning Japanese, shuffling hundreds of flash cards whenever I rode the train or... More »
    November 8, 2009 • JEQ, JOF, DNL
  • There's a black Swan Coming Out of Japan by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s call for national elections on August 30 is setting up a potential “black swan” type event. His Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled for all but 11 months of the past 55 years. But his party’s 18 year effort to spend itself out of an... More »
    July 29, 2009 • JEQ, JOF, DND
  • Why the US Will Not Become Japan by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
     I drove over the Benicia Bridge today, passing over ships unloading Toyotas from Japan. The company’s entire product line was there, from Lexus to Prius to Corolla, baking in the sun, still wrapped in plastic, and unsold by the thousands, the victims of a 40% YOY sales drop. So it... More »
    July 15, 2009 • JEQ, JOF, DNL
  • Japan and the Financial Crisis: Déjà vu? by Forex Traders
    In many ways, the U.S. recession of 2008-2009 resembles Japan’s own economic debacle in the 90’s and beyond. An overly confident national mood, appreciating asset prices, coupled to a ballooning real estate market and a heavily indebted corporate sector were the triggers of the long... More »
    June 15, 2009 • DNL, JEQ, JOF
  • How the Japanese See Our Depression. by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    Every night the evening news in Japan refers to the “Great American Depression”. Do they know something we don’t? I hear largely inaccurate comparisons to our current economic debacle to Japan’s lost decade on an almost daily basis. But there is one thing both have in... More »
    June 3, 2009 • JEQ, AAXJ, DNL
  • Japan: When Terrible is Good by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    You know things are bad when traders celebrate a Q1 GDP of minus 4%, better than the 4.4% that had been forecast, but still the worst in history. The main causes were a 26% decline in exports and a strong yen, which diluted foreign profits. Apparently, people don’t rush out and buy a new... More »
    May 21, 2009 • AAXJ, DNL, JEQ
  • Japan Starts Exporting the Unemployed by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    If you can’t find jobs for your workers, just deport them. That seems to be Japan’s answer to the soaring unemployment rate brought on by a collapse in the country’s exports, down 45.6% YOY. During the late eighties, when companies were wringing their hands over labor... More »
    May 1, 2009 • JEQ, JOF, AAXJ
  • China Tops US as Biggest Japanese Car Buyer by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    China has surpassed the US for the first time as the largest buyer of cars from Japan. Nissan reported a leap in sales in March to the Middle Kingdom of 29% YOY. The cause is a $550 billion Chinese emergency economic stimulus package that among other things cut taxes on new car purchases by 50%.... More »
    April 21, 2009 • NSANY, JEQ, JOF
  • Japan Hits the Bond Market by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
    Japan will soon hit its bond market with a near record $110 billion of new paper to finance its emergency economic stimulus program. Anticipation of the program has already pushed yields on the JGB to 1.46%, a high for the year, up from 1.21% in January. With short term interest rates at zero... More »
    April 21, 2009 • JEQ, JOF, AAXJ

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