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The Covid Bubble: How and When will it Pop?

140 years later, comedian Beat Takeshi quipped that “it’s not scary to cross on a red light if everyone does it together.”

By Peter Tasker | February 5, 2021
Articles Finance

Moby BoJ: How the Bank of Japan Can Exit its ETF Trap

It would end up owning enough of the Japanese economy to gladden the heart of Karl Marx

By Peter Tasker | December 29, 2020
Articles Finance

At Last: Buffett Validates Abe’s Legacy

Abe’s project of resurrecting Japan as a confident, independent geopolitical player would never succeed without economic revival

By Peter Tasker | September 6, 2020
Articles Finance

The World Won’t Turn Japanese for Long: Inflation Is Coming

The last few weeks have seen more civil disorder in the United States and the UK than Japan experienced in two “lost decades.”

By Peter Tasker | June 30, 2020
Articles Finance

At Last – the Missing Arrow!

What went missing after the initial phase of Abenomics was the second arrow, fiscal stimulus.

By Peter Tasker | December 19, 2019
Finance Reflections

Can Japan Become the Sixth Eye?

With a new Asia-focused Cold War taking shape, the idea that capital should flow across borders unimpeded is for the birds

By Peter Tasker | November 7, 2019
Articles Finance Politics

Japan is Still the Future

In demographics too, Japan is looking more like a pioneer than an outlier.

By Peter Tasker | October 5, 2019
Articles Finance

Nikkei 39,000: Scenarios for a New High for Japanese Stocks

On that basis, new highs should come sooner rather than later.

By Peter Tasker | September 24, 2019
Articles Finance

Galactic Japanification – What Comes Next?

Politically, most Western countries are not in the same postcode… societies are already polarizing and political systems buckling.

By Peter Tasker | August 23, 2019
Finance Reflections

Modern Monetary Theory: Coming Your Way Soon (Unless Big Changes Are Made)

Far from soaring interest rates, as doomsters consistently predicted, Japanese bond yields have fallen to vanishing point.

By Peter Tasker | August 9, 2019
Articles Finance

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