I'm not going to take anything the Heritage Foundation says seriously
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2024
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When I saw Heritage, my response flipped to NOPE. But I thought, charitably, hey give 'em a chance. LoL, NO. The 3rd take away point "cut spending" is right out of austerity thinking, which has been disproven. Buncha cranks. Spending without taxation to back it up, sure that's problematic. And so is cutting spending 'will he, nill he'. Funny how they never talk about cutting military spending. smh.
I'm out of the loop. What did HF do to make you not take them seriously?
It's a right-wing think tank who, among many other things, are the architects of project 2025.
Ah, enough said. Thanks.
$400Bn is nothing in the USA, honestly. Japan could fire sale it all, which it won't, and in the worst case American actors will buy it all up and the market blip will be over in a single day. Someone will make good money on short sales, though.
Hmmmm…..interesting……yes….something something……absolutely fascinating……so, rich people money……blah blah blah is …..at risk, it says and… something something……no solution…..unless ….. they take money from poor people”
Japan should just try communism. I hear it works great and then you can cozy up with your neighbors of Russia and China.
Can't really be communist and think you're the supreme race at the same time though.
A Japanese communist movement literally tried, they were put down by fascists.
Also Russia isn't communist lol
I just mean it'll give them access to this block. I don't think liberals in Japan will jump ship with the west
They already have the Kyōsantō in the Diet, although a minority - 10 out of 465.
They're anti-China. Sucks to be them smh
Very similar to the situation of leftism in India.
The CPI was openly anti-China - although they're open to merging back with the CPIM. But the CPI isn't as relevant as the CPIM. The CPIM, which was carved out of CPI, had a split, owing to the Sino-Soviet split. And then the communist parties in India kept fragmenting over minute ideological differences - some into Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyist, Maoists, etc , and some went out of relevance. None of these parties, however, have any connection to the HSRA, aka the original anti-colonialist revolutionaries. Now, there are fake (non-Marxist), wannabe socialist/communist (read: welfare capitalist) parties like the INC and SP with considerable seats in the Indian parliament.
In the case of JCP, they seems to align with the Soviets strongly, just like old-timers at CPI.
Oh? I thought they were anti-Soviet too.
Good. Donald Biden (or Joe Trump) have turned the USD and US debt into a dumpster fire. The sooner other countries dump it the better their finances will be.
Can someone ELI5?
Japanese investors hold a large chunk of US bonds. With the yen rallying against the dollar and US rates being high, they're looking to dump their bonds because otherwise they're going to start losing money on them.
Oh and the implication is that that could further devalue US bonds. Got ya, thanks.
They'd never do it if it'd hurt USA so badly. They rely strongly on them on many fields, including military support