Big in Japan ?

[Tommy Tainant]

Anybody got any funds in Japan ?
Looking at their markets it looks like Small Cap funds have done better than the larger corps. Index trackers not so much. Will the demise of Mr Abe have a detrimental effect ?
Thinking of dripping some cash in there.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

Anybody got any funds in Japan ?
Looking at their markets it looks like Small Cap funds have done better than the larger corps. Index trackers not so much. Will the demise of Mr Abe have a detrimental effect ?
Thinking of dripping some cash in there.

I have VPADX in my retirement account.

Hopefully future performance is better than the past.

 

[martybegan]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

 

[martybegan]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

 

[martybegan]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

 

[martybegan]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

As I said, we have been predicting Japan's downfall for a long time. The problem like in most all countries we get involved in is we simply do not understand their culture.

We wrongly believe that unless they believe as we do there is something wrong with them. We see recession as a bad thing. They simply shrug it off.

 

[martybegan]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

As I said, we have been predicting Japan's downfall for a long time. The problem like in most all countries we get involved in is we simply do not understand their culture.

We wrongly believe that unless they believe as we do there is something wrong with them. We see recession as a bad thing. They simply shrug it off.

It's still predictions, however they have done nothing to fix their population contraction.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

As I said, we have been predicting Japan's downfall for a long time. The problem like in most all countries we get involved in is we simply do not understand their culture.

We wrongly believe that unless they believe as we do there is something wrong with them. We see recession as a bad thing. They simply shrug it off.

It's still predictions, however they have done nothing to fix their population contraction.

It's not going to be as big of a future problem as our massive debt.

 

[martybegan]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

As I said, we have been predicting Japan's downfall for a long time. The problem like in most all countries we get involved in is we simply do not understand their culture.

We wrongly believe that unless they believe as we do there is something wrong with them. We see recession as a bad thing. They simply shrug it off.

It's still predictions, however they have done nothing to fix their population contraction.

It's not going to be as big of a future problem as our massive debt.

I disagree. debt can be repaid, people cannot just be sprouted up unless we perfect accelerated cloning.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

As I said, we have been predicting Japan's downfall for a long time. The problem like in most all countries we get involved in is we simply do not understand their culture.

We wrongly believe that unless they believe as we do there is something wrong with them. We see recession as a bad thing. They simply shrug it off.

It's still predictions, however they have done nothing to fix their population contraction.

It's not going to be as big of a future problem as our massive debt.

I disagree. debt can be repaid, people cannot just be sprouted up unless we perfect accelerated cloning.

We can't repay the debt. It would mean recession and we believe that to be evil.

 

[martybegan]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

As I said, we have been predicting Japan's downfall for a long time. The problem like in most all countries we get involved in is we simply do not understand their culture.

We wrongly believe that unless they believe as we do there is something wrong with them. We see recession as a bad thing. They simply shrug it off.

It's still predictions, however they have done nothing to fix their population contraction.

It's not going to be as big of a future problem as our massive debt.

I disagree. debt can be repaid, people cannot just be sprouted up unless we perfect accelerated cloning.

We can't repay the debt. It would mean recession and we believe that to be evil.

We could if the feds went back to their original limited concept.

 

[pknopp]

Weren't the "experts" recently writing Japan's obituary?

It's more about their demographics than their stock market and short term economy.

Japan had been little or no growth for a long time. Even negative growth. Many "experts" claimed their demise over this but they simply went on about their lives.

The issue is they don't have enough lives to go around. Their birth rate is terrible, and they are not a culture accepting of immigrants.

They also don't see "growth" the same way we do. It is working for them.

It's hiding the inevitable decline they will be facing, when villages run out of people, cities contract, and businesses run out of entry level employees.

Villages aren't going to run out of people.

Can Japan's Vanishing Villages Survive?

The phenomenon is called shoushikoureika—the combined effects of an aging population, anemic birthrate, and surging demand for social services. Japan’s population is set to lose up to one-third of its population, down to 88 million people, by 2065. In 2017, fewer than 1 million babies were born in Japan, the smallest number ever recorded—until 2018, when the country handily beat the previous year’s low. In 2016, the nation’s population declined 330,786, the seventh straight year of decrease, and the largest year-over-year drop since such record-keeping began in 1968—until 2018, when a population decline of 449,000 was recorded. Census figures show a population contraction of almost 1 million people since 2010.

As I said, we have been predicting Japan's downfall for a long time. The problem like in most all countries we get involved in is we simply do not understand their culture.

We wrongly believe that unless they believe as we do there is something wrong with them. We see recession as a bad thing. They simply shrug it off.

It's still predictions, however they have done nothing to fix their population contraction.

It's not going to be as big of a future problem as our massive debt.

I disagree. debt can be repaid, people cannot just be sprouted up unless we perfect accelerated cloning.

We can't repay the debt. It would mean recession and we believe that to be evil.

We could if the feds went back to their original limited concept.

But we will never do that so...........

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Guys, I am going in. Small steps and all that.