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Is the U.S. Recession a Repeat of Japan’s Lost Decade?
If you want a real look at what’s headed this way, ask Hideko Toyotomi.
When Japan’s so-called “Lost Decade” began with a bang in the early 1990s, she was an “OL” – an office lady – working in one of Japan’s mightiest corporations and she kept her job, despite the downturn.
She was one of the lucky ones. Her employer was a mainstay electronics producer and a key exporter, meaning the company’s business remained reasonably healthy.
This time around, she’s a housewife and mother. And she’s worried. Her husband, Masao, works at a local manufacturer that’s cut back production to only four days…
3Mar2009 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Every Investor Should Have a China Investment Strategy
As we’ve said time and again here at Money Morning, every investor has to have a China investment strategy.
And with the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games taking place today (Friday), this is probably as good a time as any to review the long-term case for a China investment strategy, and to look at the key factors investors should keep in mind as they put their investment plan into action.
An old Wall Street adage holds that “the trend is your friend,” a precept that we wholeheartedly subscribe to. Indeed, as we’ve often told readers, the very best…
8Aug2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedThe Lost Decade: How the U.S. Financial Crisis Resembles Japan’s Ten Years of Misery – And How to Play it
If you think the “Lost Decade” Japan endured during the 1990s was deep and painful, stick around: As the global financial crisis that was jump-started by the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market continues to unwind, the U.S. economy is headed for a financial Ice Age that will make Japan’s 10 wasted years seem like a single chilly night.
The two meltdowns started in much the same way – with busted stock-and-real-estate bubbles. With both the United States and Japan, the market manias were ignited by laughably loose credit policies, smoldered under a lack of oversight from government regulators, market analysts…
17Jul2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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