For decades, Japan has quietly financed a significant portion of the global financial system. Its pension funds, insurers and institutional investors have channelled trillions of...
For nearly three decades, Japan occupied a unique place in global finance. While the rest of the world worried about inflation, Japan worried about deflation....
For years, global investors repeated the same mantra almost mechanically: whenever uncertainty rises, buy dollars. Wars, crises, recessions, banking stress, geopolitical fragmentation, everything ultimately reinforced...
For years, the world believed the dollar system was unbreakable. Every crisis ultimately reinforced American financial dominance. Capital fled towards US Treasuries. The dollar strengthened....
For years, global finance functioned around a dangerous but convenient illusion: Japan would finance everybody forever. The country remained the ultimate source of global liquidity....
For decades, financial orthodoxy has rested on a comforting assumption: when panic strikes, investors flee to the usual shelters — US Treasuries, gold, the yen,...