Mark Stapleton
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Japan just went over the cliff, unless I'm missing something.
Exports for January were down 46% from last January. Demand for motor vehicles went down 69%, if you can believe it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7909248.stm
This is gathering momentum like a snowball.
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Ouch. That must hurt.
If it gets any worse the Yakuza will be on the dole.
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Mark Stapleton Wrote:Japan just went over the cliff, unless I'm missing something.
Exports for January were down 46% from last January. Demand for motor vehicles went down 69%, if you can believe it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7909248.stm
This is gathering momentum like a snowball.
Ahhhh.....Mark, that's just a slowdown :dontknow: Perhaps they are more honest with their figures, I'm sure the ones coming out of the US and UK have been 'massaged' [being polite, here] to make them seem less alarming! The whole ****ing Planet is in dire straits and I see no one with any power or bully pulpit making any moves in the correct direction - only 'fixing' things by doing more of what caused the problems in the first place - often with the same captains that grounded all the ships in the first place. Full steam ahead! Forward into the past! :captain:
Mark Stapleton
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It's enough to make a Japanese Finance Minister turn to drink:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7907425.stm
He must have caught an early glimpse of those astonishingly bad trade figures.
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26-02-2009, 06:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-02-2009, 07:13 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Mark Stapleton Wrote:It's enough to make a Japanese Finance Minister turn to drink:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7907425.stm
He must have caught an early glimpse of those astonishingly bad trade figures.
Ah...you lefties twist everything. Don't you remember, he said it was his pain killers that caused the problem [and politicians don't lie]. Sloppy drunk is now more acceptable in Japan and one doesn't necessarily HAVE to commit hari-kiri any more. But it just might come back as a fad if the pain killers don't do the job.
