Are we turning Japanese? New update! READ MONEYMANAGMENTRADIO.COM May 27, 2013

Marc's Notes:

Japans new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to wipe out half his citizens wealth in 36 years and he is doing this to help the Japanese economy.

This is no joke. Abe has decided (much like our Central Bank has) to target an inflation rate of 2 % and that doesn’t mean he wants to lower it to 2 % but raise it. Japan has languished over 2 decades in a go-nowhere economy with persistent deflation (falling prices).

Japan has never recovered from its real estate bust that took place in the early 90’s and their stock market has never achieved the lofty levels it did so many years ago. In fact it’s still down by more then 70 % from its record height.

What happens over there can happen over here and seeing how our Federal Reserve is addressing our real estate crash in the exact same way Japan has, it’s almost a foregone conclusion the US will see a similar result.

Since its crash, Japan has bailed out banks, bought toxic debt from just about every private coffer available and has concreted the entire island in stimulus projects. Trillions of yen printed up and poured down the bail out/stimulus hole with little to show for it but miles of highway and trillions in debt.

Their economy is still stuck in the Sukiyaki because of these failed polices so Prime Minister Abe is going to try again but only on a grander scale. If at first you don’t succeed try and try again and Japan has tried this remedy so many times it beginning to look more like the definition of insanity then an under-dosage of medicine.

Abe is going to print Yen until he prints so much he will force feed the Japanese people an inflation of at least 2 % in the belief this will fix things.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize making the things that people buy more expensive won’t fix anything but only exasperate an already bad situation but he doesn’t know that. He’s being advised by Keynesian schooled economists who somehow reason that printing up trillions of intangible colored pieces of paper with old guys faces on them will somehow fix an economy that suffers from tangible problems.

He also probably hasn’t bother to scroll up his calculator and figure out that with an inflation rate of 2 %, in 36 years his people will able to buy only half as much because of that same inflation he is trying so desperately to create.

His idea subsequently boils down to this: Lets wipe out half our citizens savings and improve things.

It’s the crazy world we live in today, where ill advised politicians have wacky ideas given to them by even wackier advisors telling them to do the exact opposite of what needs to be done.

Never mind the fact the money printing solution has never worked, EVER, in the history of mankind’s attempt at it. That reality doesn’t fit with their idea that they have to “do something” to fix the problem the exact same policy caused in the first place which was too much money chasing an asset into a bubble.

Now Japan is set on doing even more money printing and they are therefore probably destined to another decade of just muddling through. They will then end up scratching their heads as to why it’s not working and since it worked out so well over there, our Federal Reserve has decided to do the exact same thing over here.

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