The Central Bank That Owns Japan

This is about a deep, financial and economic analysis of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and its colossal, unconventional balance sheet.

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15 Comments

  1. This channel might blow up on social media – the video about China Southern Airlines was very well done. I was on that plane twice – very EXCELLENT service, had four cups of wine, enjoyed the meal very much. And I was only in the economy seat but it was very comfortable. (Anyways in my country – we all know JAPN .. will "#RIP". they done messing themselves up with all those US treasury bills and bonds, now they have to print more money just to hold the economy. Getting more desperate. not even tourism can save them.)

  2. If Japan can survive multiple nuclear bombs and a collapsed WW2 economy, then it can survive a BOJ sell of assets to restore the markets to properly function and clean out the 251,000+ zombie corpotations to transform. What if they missed the biggest market game-changers like OS, smartphones, servers, AI, and other tech booms by no allowing the 251,000+ zombie corpotations to transform via creative destruction? They do have to develop a culture of "It is ok to fail and try again and try again" without going to the suicide forrest. Not my Pikachus!!! Deflation is only a problem if the products and services suck like in China, where their Moon Cakes that kill ants who eat it, or Tofu Drag Buildings that collapse or terrible EVs catch on fire like Fire Bombs. In contrast, it is call an "Amazing Bargain" if products and services are awesome and of high quality. Are the buildings around Tokyo of "Low Quality" if BOJ triggers a deflation? Or it is an "amazing bargain" and the "Deal of the Century" to buy up 21st-Century Japanase Assets for cheap?

  3. you dont seem to understand that the world has reached limits to growth and that the population of Japan has been steadily decreasing, yet ypu pursue some kind of religious need to see an increase in economy as you measure as GDP. Please get a grip on yourself and pay attention to the real problem of how to replace the fractional reserve banking system with something better.

  4. Most insightful. Thank you very much for this. Glaring question though, why didn't they try anything on the fiscal side? If they told people, that their taxes are going to be cut every quarter, it might have had people anticipating price rises down the line, from others having more disposable income and then broken the deflationary psychology. It's astonishing that they chose to only use monetary instruments and more or less, completely discarded the fiscal side of aggregate demand stimulation. Just a thought. My god, they effectively nationalised the Japanese economy, no wonder it's gone sclerotic!