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Re:Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero by cinquemb on Sunday March 15, 2020 @08:26PM (#22588321)
> You know when you hear about Japan being this futuristic society? You go and visit and you feel like they are "ahead" and have things figured out?

Was there for a couple weeks in dec '18… kyoto, fujisan, hiroshima, tokyo… I didn't think this at all unless the "ahead" was meant in jest

> Their economy is what our economy is going to look like. A short-medium term down and then long drawn out sideways market. Who knows when a recovery will be.

So people can look forward to a 30 year bear flag? lol

> Good time to refinance.

Yeah, if you aren't already underwater facing no bids when trying to get liquid.

Re:Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to zero by fourstar on Sunday March 15, 2020 @08:57PM (#22588518)
> Was there for a couple weeks in dec '18… kyoto, fujisan, hiroshima, tokyo… I didn't think this at all unless the "ahead" was meant in jest

Tokyo is a hell of a lot more advanced than the bay area (where I grew up).

> So people can look forward to a 30 year bear flag? lol Facetiously, I don't know what you're talking about because you look like someone from /r/wsb, but I'll entertain your comment: the markets are highly manipulated and the fed is going to turn on the money machine to pump them up again.

It's all a bubble. Until you run out things to turn into bubbles.