“Abnormal is co common, it’s practically normal.” Cory Doctorow
Dear GlobalRisk community member,
This week was pretty gloomy for the world economy. Weak economic data from major countries and the intervention of the Fed, which started to buy treasuries, again put deflation talks back into the arena. The double deep recession worries increased and I am wondering whether we in the West are going to repeat the Japanese experience of the last decade. We would certainly like to receive some comments from our Japanese members about what they suggest is going to happen. It is worth noting that in Japan the government and investors were in denial about deflation for a long time.
As a result it took more than 10 years of Japanese Bond yields to go down to 1%. By time it got there Nikkei had fallen 50% from its peak. So if we are really headed for deflation and the FED fails to stop it? Well, just keep our fingers cross that it doesn't happen here in the USA and Europe. By the way if you've got a frog for a picture, hurry up and replace it!
Issue highlights
The last two weeks saw a lot of new and interesting material and discussions posted and uploaded on our community website.
I encourage members who can contribute to the idea to go ahead and reply to the discussion.
CJ Conti created a new blog post US banks under increasing scrutiny when he stated that real-time risk intelligence across the whole spectre of the company is a major issue right now. I am sure many members can contribute to the blog post.
We have some new and interesting events (see events section) and white papers uploaded by our members: Bas Knol uploaded White paper Planning your way out of the financial crisis.pdf, A roadmap to derisking corporate pensions
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