The U.S. is printing money, the U.K. is printing money, Europe is printing money, and Japan is printing money in gigantic quantities.
They argue that fewer children will, in a variety of ways, save Japan some money.
Sometimes these investors are actual companies, usually from China or Japan with money to burn and looking to make a strategic investment.
Having taken infotech as the theme of the summit, host Japan put its money where its mouth was.
However, as theory would suggest, the dollar has gained tremendously against yen going until Japan started its money printing.
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"It was very tough to get the donations, but so many people from all over Japan donated the money, " he said.
Today, Honda is one of only two car firms in Japan making serious money (the other remains Toyota), and the only one whose sales are growing.
And there's no way it can be absorbed by either life insurance companies or banks - no matter how cheap the Bank of Japan makes overnight money.
Mr. Kay also would use economic and financial pressure points, especially suspending South Korean trade links with the North and Japan's money flows to North Korea, to compel Pyongyang to accept aggressive, intrusive inspections of its nuclear facilities.
That there is so little foreign money in Japan's government-bond market merely reduces the likelihood of panicky sell-offs.
Japan is still throwing money into China, up by 16.3 percent last year.
Investors have poured money into Japan equity funds in 10 of the last 12 weeks, according to EPFR Global.
This time next year, then, if money in Japan is no longer free, it will probably still be absurdly cheap.
For years, hedge funds borrowed money in Japan at next to nothing and employed the capital in the fixed-income sector here.
Google could have just thrown money at Japan (which is what Bing tried to do) and they probably will make a donation.
Central banks in the U.S., Europe and Japan have been pumping money into their economies in an effort to stimulate growth, buoying global financial markets.
The tax discouraged Japanese investors from repatriating money to Japan after its earthquake, because they did not want to pay the tax if they ever decided to return.
Japan offers rich prize money as well as top-class breeding.
We are already seeing signs with the Bank of England recently increasing the size of their QE program, as well as the Bank of Japan firing up their money printing press.
Yahoo Japan has been dead money for some time now and the fact it popped, a few months ago, was the time to cash in all the chips no questions asked.
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Many investors, especially in low interest rate countries like Japan, can borrow money at low cost and invest it in Brazilian local currency bonds that pay much higher yields for both short and long-dated bonds.
For years, foreigners have urged the Bank of Japan to print loads of money.
Although Japan gives large dollops of money each year, it also collects large debt payments from poor countries.
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The device is particularly well suited for a country with strong misgivings about plastic money: both Japan's credit- and debit-card markets are under-developed.
"In that scenario the government will either face bankruptcy or the Bank of Japan will have to keep printing more money, which will eventually result in hyperinflation, " said Takeshi Fujimaki, of Fujimaki Japan.
As a result, however much money the Bank of Japan creates, it is not being lent, borrowed or spent.
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During the first Gulf war, Japan's only contribution was money, even though it imports 90% of its oil from the Middle East.
"Japan is in a sweet spot right now, " said Paul Chan, chief investment officer for Asia ex-Japan at U.S. money-management firm Invesco.
Interestingly, Japan has embarked on a massive money printing scheme and has compromised the independence of its central bank in the process.
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