World’s Worst Sinkhole-Government Sports World’s Most Negative-Yielding Debt by Wolf Richter • Apr 22, 2016 • 61 Comments NIRP Absurdity Soars to New Heights.
BOJ’s Kuroda Threatens More Easing, Stocks Tank, Absurdity Reigns by Wolf Richter • Apr 5, 2016 • 31 Comments “Negative interest expense” or some such absurdity yet to be coined.
NIRP Kills Off All Money Market Funds in Japan by Wolf Richter • Mar 9, 2016 • 16 Comments And the Bitter Irony?
Revolt against NIRP Breaks out, Bank of Japan “Baffled” by Wolf Richter • Feb 19, 2016 • 28 Comments Meanwhile, exports collapse at fastest rate since 2009.
Contagion Hits Japanese Banks, Nikkei Plunges, 10-Year Yield Negative for First Time Ever by Wolf Richter • Feb 9, 2016 • 22 Comments A banking crisis radiating out from Europe?
Negative-Interest-Rate Effect already Dead, Central Banks Lost Control over Stocks by Wolf Richter • Feb 5, 2016 • 24 Comments And there’s a bitter irony.
QE in Japan Nears End: Daiwa Capital Markets by Wolf Richter • Jan 31, 2016 • 22 Comments The Bank of Japan’s desperate head fake.
Volkswagen Gets Blamed for the Fiasco in Japan by Wolf Richter • Sep 24, 2015 • 12 Comments Now the gravy train is rolling backwards.
Central Banks Scramble, Fail to Rescue Stocks, after Greece by Wolf Richter • Jul 6, 2015 • 19 Comments “Europe is already surrounded by a geopolitical ring of fire.”
So the Japanese Government Bond Market Is Dead. And the Yen? by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2014 • 12 Comments In two years, 37% of Japan’s yen-denominated wealth has gone up in smoke.
