{"id":242173,"date":"2010-01-28T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japans-hyperinflation-nightmare-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-28T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:37:00","slug":"how-japanese-hyperinflation-could-turn-the-dollar-into-toilet-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242173","title":{"rendered":"How Japanese Hyperinflation Could Turn The Dollar Into Toilet Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b619506000000000047d78e-400-\/dollar-toilet-paper.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dollar Toilet Paper\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you boil water without releasing any steam everything looks perfectly calm&#8230; until the entire pot explodes.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the huge risk with Japan&#8217;s gargantuan debt load right now.<\/p>\n<p>Frequently billed as a highly stable country, Japan&#8217;s dark secret is that it should have exploded into a hyper-inflationary death spiral years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, it could easily take the U.S. financial system and U.S. dollar down with it. That&#8217;s because the U.S. depends on Japan to fund its own debt binge.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not alone here. These concerns have been heavily informed by the research of Societe Generale. Japanese hyperinflation would be disastrous exactly because it goes against what most investors have been taught to expect.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japans-hyperinflation-nightmare-2010-1\/nobody-expects-japanese-hyperinflation-1\">How Japanese Hyperinflation Could Turn The Dollar Into Toilet Paper &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japans-hyperinflation-nightmare-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-debt-problem-2010-1\">Japan&#8217;s Shrinking Population Puts It On The Ratings Downgrade Path To Banana Republic Status<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-becomes-toyota-2010-1\">Japan&#8217;s Revival Lies In Becoming A Giant Toyota<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-airlines-bankruptcy-setting-of-wave-of-write-downs-2010-1\">Japan Airlines Wipe-Out Sets Off Wave Of Write-Downs Throughout Corporate Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/D6E4yBnp-28\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you boil water without releasing any steam everything looks perfectly calm&#8230; until the entire pot explodes. That&#8217;s the huge risk with Japan&#8217;s gargantuan debt load right now. Frequently billed as a highly stable country, Japan&#8217;s dark secret is that it should have exploded into a hyper-inflationary death spiral years ago. Worse yet, it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}