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NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

What is that policy? I’m not familiar with that.

Yeah, I’ve heard that before like the Switch 2 being cheaper than the US and the used market is much much cheaper in price and quality than the US for consoles and games.

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baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
go broke on the international exchange

tied to an aging population and declining tech advantage (read gone)

1. The Currency “Collapse” on the International Exchange

The Japanese Yen has faced a historic decline, dropping past 160 to nearly 180 Yen per USD. [1, 2]

The Debt Trap: Japan’s public debt sits at a staggering 240%+ of GDP. To stop the government from going broke under the weight of interest payments, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has historically had to suppress bond yields. [1, 2]

The Exchange Rate Penalty: Because the BOJ keeps domestic interest rates artificially low (around 1%) while global central banks (like the US Federal Reserve) keep rates much higher, investors relentlessly dump the Yen to buy Dollars. Massive, multi-billion-dollar government currency interventions have repeatedly failed to save the Yen because they treat the symptom rather than the underlying fiscal debt. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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