RetireJapan

I think we can all agree there is a lot of uncertainty about what policies will actually get implemented as part of the second coming of Trump. However, he campaigned on and was elected on a platform to massively cut taxes and increase spending. I think it’s fairly safe to assume this is going to ha...

Here is the effect of Trump's policy proposals.. compare with Japan's fiscal deficit of around 6% ... the whole thing is absurd, as is his tariffs proposal. Will be very interesting to see what happens if anything like this really goes ahead. Remember he has a popular mandate and a red sweep so it's...

I assume you are thinking that Japanese fiscal policy is too loose and hence the yen will weaken? However Fiscal policy is loosening everywhere. It’s not just Japanese Government spending that happens here that will influence the exchange rates. Trump’s fiscal plans are absurd, Xi is having to stimu...

I'm not sure, if cryptography is broken, cryptocurrencies will be the least of the concerns. And if algorithms are updated to account for quantum computing, that will be applied to cryptocurrencies too. It's like worrying about the stock market if nuclear war starts. Yep, if/when anyone works out a...

cold wallet to be in a faraday cage A cold wallet is just a number. There's no electronics involved. What an EMP would do would be to stop the miners, meaning whoever got started up again quickly could potentially control the blockchain, until everyone else got back online. BRB digging a hole to Zi...

From 160 to 140 to 160 in just a few weeks. I think this latest burst of dollar strength will force the MoF to intervene again and the BoJ to hike rates again. Hopefully that will help arrest this latest decline.

If someone asked me about explaining crypto, I'd refer them to Chat GPT or some other AI. I think I have a reasonable understanding of crypto, I just don't see any reason for it to have inherent value ;) Well, nothing has any inherent value unless it is agreed by the people who use it - gold, fiat ...

Cash usage is going down, same as every other country - and this trend started way before Bitcoin was invented. It’s being replaced by credit cards, debit cards and QR code based systems. None of which use blockchain or craptocurrency!

I think a delayed election fault would cause a small sell-off but nothing too serious - a low single digits %. Not enough to prepare to back up the truck and load up on heavily discounted equities. I think markets will also sell off if Harris wins. Equities have gone some way into pricing in a reduc...

Ahh that’s a shame. Is that a limit on the online system, max five employers can be entered? I remember if was a bit of a faff to enter them all but I had fewer than five.