The Monday Read

[vapid]

https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... ty/603568/

Japanese identity

[vapid]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch ... h-the-risk

Japan and Nuclear power. But there is a linked article that is worth a good read too;

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opin ... power.html

[vapid]

https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d004 ... ation.html

Water utilities future in Japan.

[vapid]

Not sure how to recommend a YouTube channel, but Tokyo Llama channel started in 2019 and is about his process of buying an Akiya house. The whole video series is really engaging. Here is the main channel link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ3TE ... JuMl1S_4ig

This is the most interesting from a Finance perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRjO3kHxU4

He posts mostly on a different forum about rural life in Japan, but I think he might make a good guest poster if you were to contact him.

[vapid]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... to-poverty

Japanese women face growing poverty.

[captainspoke]

@vapid I saw that article, not something the gov't wants to hear tho.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... emium-asia

(might be a paywall, dump your cookies first)


edit: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of ... 1578632400 (definitely a paywall)

[captainspoke]

This is pretty well known -- sequence of returns, 4% rule.

[TokyoWart]

Isn’t that Scenario #3 odd? Once your portfolio hits zero it doesn’t become more negative if the market rises faster when figuring the sequence of returns result. The writer seems to have been on autopilot in his thinking. Good point about the very real risk due to sequence of returns.

[captainspoke]

Yeah, probably an unusual way to add emphasis or something.

The better illustrations I've seen choose a time period with a happy ending, and then reverse the sequence (or simply place the 2-3 worst years first).

I think sequence of returns is something Ben has posted on before (that I've read). Maybe he could point that out.

[captainspoke]

This seems to be a pretty balanced snapshot of things right now:

https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/ ... cmp=em-QYB