Recently I gained a somewhat more accurate understanding of the monetary system. Thus I became instantly terrified that the Eurozone, without a spender of last resort, was going to strangle itself trying to force fiscal austerity on a set of economies some of which are mired in the most brutal of balance sheet recessions. While [...]
Tue, February 23 2010 » Economics, Japan » 4 Comments
I found a load of awesome stuff like that tune I posted a few days ago so rather than uploading individual ones I thought I’d just post a torrent that I found with a load of the stuff in it. Alot of what’s in this I don’t particularly like myself but there’s some real gems [...]
Mon, February 22 2010 » Japan, Music » No Comments
At the kind suggestion of a reader I watched the first series of 絶望先生 (despairing teacher). The main character is a kimono wearing school teacher who so despairs at various aspects of life that he repeatedly tries to kill himself. There are many ironic references to Japanese culture and stylistically it feels very 和風 (literally translates as [...]
Sun, February 21 2010 » Anime, Japan » 2 Comments
Found the most awesome remix “tune”: SHINE!! For those of you not into this type of stuff it’s worth listening to the hilarious conversation around 2:43. 萌えました。
Thu, February 18 2010 » Japan, Music » No Comments
I found an old atlas from 1982 that I used to look at all the time when I was young (though it was old even then). It has some bits and pieces on world economics and I found this bit on oil production and consumption to be pretty interesting: Japan’s dependence on oil is pretty [...]
Thu, February 4 2010 » Economics, Japan » No Comments