Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate

Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:15AM (#11020332)

Does Japan have the same issues with student loans and such that USA might have?

Otherwise, thank you for the explanation and I do apologize for my ignorance.

(Also, I'm still confused about the feminism thing)

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by vetinari on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:31AM (#11020429)

With the feminism thing, it was some other guy, won't help you much with that, sorry. I'm ignorant about that too.

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by zhemao on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:35PM (#11021364)

Might be referring to the fact that many Japanese women choose not to marry and have kids because it is essentially career suicide. There's a very strong cultural bias against working mothers in Japan.

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by bigmanwalter on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:08PM (#11021152)

I think he meant the whole thing where women can now decide if the want to keep the baby or not.

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @01:23PM (#11021273)

Women have always been able to decide, with terrible consequences. Putting up your baby for adoption or abandoning it at an orphanage is pretty old?

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by bigmanwalter on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @10:01PM (#11024482)

Except for the whole part where they would get ostracized from society if people were to find out that they abandoned their child?

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