Japan - WTF is Going On? Recession, Yen Crash, Negative Interest Rates, Ageing & Falling Population - Joe Blogs

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Japan is now officially in RECESSION, has NEGATIVE Interest Rates, an AGEING and REDUCING Population and the value of the YEN has plummeted over the past 3 years. Japan has been trapped in a LIQUIDITY TRAP NIGHTMARE since the early 1990's. Following 30 years of expansion Japan was tipped to Overtake the USA as the largest economy in the World. However the rapid growth saw the development of a simultaneous Real Estate Bubble and Stock Market Bubble at the end of the 1980's. Both of these Bubbles BURST in spectacular style and Japan has never managed to recover. In this video I look at the current problems and discuss the challenges that Japan now faces and WTF is going on.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
3:16 GDP
6:17 YEN
9:25 BALANCE OF TRADE
10:23 INFLATION
14:00 CONSUMER SPENDING
14:55 HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS
16:31 POPULATION
20:31 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

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1. They've been in a technical recession for at least a decade, maybe more. but

as was pointed out, they also have a population that is decreasing. The would fall in line with an economy that wouldn't need to expand and where consumer demand would be naturally decreasing.

IMO, there's nothing wrong with that! Eventually every other nation on the planet is going to have their own decreasing population.