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fxgai
Completely wrong. Indeed such a role for the BOJ is explicitly banned in principle under Article V of Japan’s Finance Law.
There is a reason for that particular law, to prevent repetition of past mistakes.
Jay
That's still vastly superior to most other countries.
Uhhh, nope. No, definitely not.
As someone that just moved from the US, I can tell you that is NOT true.
Japan's economy is doing great. Especially when you consider how hard COVID hit. We do not need to be changing anything. That's how you end up making things MUCH worse.
JeffLee
So what? The BOJ is the fiscal agent of Finance Ministry, and the proceeds from the coupon payments, etc., from the bonds it holds flow back to the ministry. What's your point?
Huh? Japan has some of the strongest macro numbers around: record-high current account surplus (world's biggest creditor), a safe-haven currency, zero foreign debt, no inflation. And before the pandemic, corporate profits were near record highs, while the Tokyo stock market today is booming.
fxgai
Completely wrong, even if you only just bothered to read the article.
And even if you had read the article you’d be wrong anyway because the BOJ doesn’t borrow the money, the Ministry of Finance does. And the BOJ and Ministry of Finance have different names… because they are not the same thing.
Peter Neil
Did you consider using the article above and dividing it by households?
Jonathan Prin
Many countries are much richer than Japanese per capita or per household.
What is important is what is the median average.
Also to notice Japanese wealth is stacked in cash and deposit for 54%, which means it is mostly unused in the economic cycle.
Everyone agrees economic Japanese situation is dire so not sure what the article tries to say, outside the rich got richer.
nandakandamanda
Oh, here are the sites I looked at, in Japanese.
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=家庭+貯金+平均&client=safari&hl=ja-jp&ei=6qpGYYnGBZejoASjhYzACg&oq=家庭預金平均&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYATIFCAAQzQIyBQgAEM0CUABYAGCCrAJoAHAAeACAAVWIAVWSAQExmAEAwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
nandakandamanda
Peter, where did you get that figure?
Having run several quick searches with different ways of calculating I could not find evidence anywhere of more than ¥20 million per household.
¥13 million or $120,000 seems closer.
Peter Neil
interesting.
Average Japanese household cash and savings is equivalent to US$ 340,000.
Average US household cash and savings in US$ 41,700. The median is only US$ 5,300. Half of American households have less than $5,300 total, which shows the incredible divide of wealth.
Peter Neil
What's your point?
The US FED owns 78% of the $21 trillion (2,290 trillion yen) in government debt.
The FED owes 2,290 trillion yen... to itself.
didou
Saving money, putting it in some financial investments is good rather than some dum spending, but at the end of the day, it only benefits the banks and financial institutions, and in the opposite, many economical sectors will suffer
didou
Other countries are already leading for that
Fighto!
With Japanese households cashed up with assets and stocks in a record way, things sure seem to be ticking along very well in Japan. Good to see Japanese save rather than spending unneccesarily on items like TVs, cars etc that dont need replacing. Hope this becomes a worldwide trend.
Wakarimasen
Bubble bubble bubble. Soon we will see trouble
ShinkansenCaboose
With deflation, nothing wrong with holding cash.
JeffLee
Good show! A big challenge has been to get getting Japanese households to take on moderate risk and invest wisely to reap higher returns for their retirement years rather than just holding cash. That trend is growing, according to these numbers. The earlier govt reforms aimed this direction are having a great effect!
TokyoJoe
Good, people are not wasting their hard earned money and instead wisely putting it into savings.