Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief

Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief by toomuchtodo on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @06:19PM (#12492729)

Interesting tidbit: We're way passed that with the BoJ. They're the majority shareholder of 55 companies on the Nikkei.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-14/the-tokyo-...

That's right. The Bank Of Japan is printing money to prop of the value of top companies trading on Japan's exchange. Think about the macroeconomic causes and consequences of that.

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Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief by ZoeZoeBee on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @07:38PM (#12493144)

Even Better think about the consequences of Japan's aging population relying upon the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund, being propped up by the JCBs purchase of equities.

>The GPIF’s results are seen as a gauge of broad market performance, as the fund owns nearly 1% of global equity markets and more than 7% of the Japanese stock market. Domestic and foreign equities comprised 44% of the portfolio at the end of March, below its 50% target weighting for the asset class, the fund said in a statement. http://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-gpif-pension-fund-suffers...

There is this can they keep on kicking, hoping to out run the "current" malaise but you can't escape the Great Graying when your economies are dependent upon constant expansion.

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