Special report: Why Japan will avert a fiscal meltdown

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Highguide wrote:

‘Japan’s households are avid buyers of bonds, it is because they are sitting on a mountain of savings — some 1,400 trillion yen ($17,320 billion’………….You have to be kidding right? Where did you get that ‘fact’ from…..?

Mar 17, 2011 6:08pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Gorm wrote:

Massive and costly containment and infrastructure problems atop an aged population and 200% debt to GDP doesn’t strike me as a motivating force for a rosy future!!
Gorm

Mar 18, 2011 12:15pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
LiquidSteel wrote:

It would be interesting to see the same analysis and comparisons applied to the U.S., using the recent economic collapse as the catalyst event.

Mar 18, 2011 5:56pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
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