Kaerimashita comments

Yes, inflation and dramatically escalated fares.

DT can really be pathetic. Clearly a liability.

Doesn want to be around when the absolute mess he has made finally comes home to roost.

Sad. I thought we were a safety country. How on earth are we supposed to increase the number of children born here if we have to take precautions?

Tedious news by now. NK firing missiles is not much of a threat. When they shell SK islands and villages, thatś worth getting worked up about.

You miss my meaning. The more they carry on with their ridiculous policies, the less time they have to bother the rest of us.

More insanity. Whether the government pays the bills or the poor hapless consumer, the price remains the same and so the CPI remains the same. And so this does nothing to curb price rises. Just creates the illusion of cheaper energy. and increases the already ridiculously large budget deficit.

These people are truly either mad or evil.

Lunacy. Someone must be spiking the water coolers at BoJ with some form of psychadelic drug.

I hope that gay activists go to Qatar and protest openly. That will show the Qataris......

Illusionary as it only reflects relative value of USD versus other currencies. Nevertheless bad for global economy, not least because so much global borrowing is in USD and so becomes much more difficult for borrowers to service and repay when their revenues are in their home currencies.

And allows US to import goods excessively and export its own inflation.

This is not going to end well.

Good for them. They are now locked in to this folly, to the benefit of the rest of the planet.

How to protect someone from a Ponzi scheme?

Hmmmmm.... Why do they need to listen. what business is it of theirs?

and my point was she might at least have outlined her view of what they are rather than the waffle she gave us.

JL

I very much doubt it.

Yeah, and CPI is only 2.6%??

That is a pretty rubbish threat.

If it alleviates some of the suffering of the Afghan in the hills, then good for them.

Panic everybody!!

This daily reporting really needs to stop sometime soon.

Was this speech really necessary? Did the sailors learn anything new? Think they found the Veep in spirational?

Poor Philippines so often caught in path of typhoons. Nature gives with one hand and takes away with the other.

Fact is that many of yesterday's "conspiracy theories" are now shown to have some basis in fact.

Which is why, rather than trying to silence or suppress them, they should be allowed to be espoused and then debated and debunked.

NK firing missiles into the sea is indeed ridiculous. however calling it a threat and overreacting like this is also ridiculous.

If Russian invasion has shown anything, it is the liklihood that NK military is also all mouth and no trousers - tends to be the case in this type of bankrupt, authoritarian regime.

Jeff

you are not making any relevant point.

I used Korea war as a reference point for when the US started with its endless interference in the affairs of foreign countries. To counter your example, what about Vietnam? think the Vietnamese were happier during the war or now?

As for Japan, nothing to do with the topic.

I just hope Kamala doesn't add to the aggressive rhetoric or misspeak while she is here.

Musicians, movie stars and sports stars are 10 a penny these days. The circuses part of bread and circuses going strong.

Recent history is of the USA frequently interfering in the affairs of foreign countries (and in some cases, invading them) for no justifiable reason. From Korea onwards.

citing a 9/11 type event as justification for the Iraq war or for 20 years in Afghanistan is ludicrous.

Add Yugoslavia. Libya. Grenada. Panama. Vietnam. And I'm sure there are plenty other exampl;es of covert military support or interference.

It is often the role of the global hegemon to behave this way, but saying that they try to avoid wars is just not true.

Listen to the current nuclear rhetoric over Ukraine. Or the messaging around Taiwan. If anything, a significant part of the US political establishment appear to be spoiling for a fight.

Shame on you Holly Medcalf. Such naivety! A teacher too!!

Pretty futile protest. Setting himself alight is going to change the government's mind?

Occam's Razor? What's wrong with simplicity. Primary cause of price rises is inflation of the money supply. sure additional things like supply chains and shortages caused by war might exacerbate the problem, but see Milton Friedman for the prime cause of inflation. Every time.

Peter

Indeed. Shows the silliness of claiming all the price rises are due to supply chain blockages and the war.

Rampant money supply growth is causing all this across the board.

Wherever market forces dictate - without the BoJ openly manipulating the rate.