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I think that the Japan public debt house is starting to crackle and they do not want the public to know. Thus they are silencing the media. Here is a graph of
by acd 11y ago
I think that the Japan public debt house is starting to crackle and they do not want the public to know. Thus they are silencing the media.
Here is a graph of Japanese debt to GDP ratio
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-debt-to-gdp http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-debt-to-gdp
Here is demographic Changes in Japan's population. It shows a top slope, population starting to fall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#/media/File:Population_of_Japan_since_1872.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#/media/F...
So a retiring Japanese population is going to pay for rising public debt. Sustainable in the long run?
- jld89 11y agoYou forgot to mention that Japan is the biggest creditor in the world and the one that possesses more foreign net assets than even China. So even if debt is colossal, it has the assets to maintain it for a long time.