Archive | January, 2009

Japanese stocks ‘fairly’ undervalued

The author’s intent is not to be misleading, but rather to be as frank as possible, regarding the longstanding debate of whether or not Japanese stocks are truly undervalued. In short, the answer isĀ  no. I no longer believe Japanese stocks are undervalued, not to the extent that I once did, and not to the [...]

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UPDATE: Borderless Conventional Banking Failure

No surprise that the BoJ kept rates unchanged at 0.1%. That a return to deflation is expected comes as no surprise either, since in reality, deflation never really ended, even when commodities surged last year. Meanwhile, the Japanese are left in the same predicament, with next-to-zero returns on deposits and no real need or desire [...]

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