Alex Green on Japanese shares:<\/p>\n
“Here’s a handy way to know when to sell your investments: everyone is talking about them.<\/p>\n
“There is an obvious corollary to knowing what to sell. If you want to know what to buy, consider what no one<\/em> is talking about.<\/p>\n “And that brings me to investing in Japan…<\/p>\n “From a high near 40,000 in 1989, the once-mighty Nikkei 225 – the equivalent of our S&P 500 – fell over 80% and hit a 27-year low early last year. It’s still more than 70% below the highs of 21 years ago.<\/p>\n “The main culprit – aside from a real estate bubble that made the one here in the United States look bush-league – was misguided government policies<\/a>. Japan waited too long to clean up its ailing banking system and spent trillions on public works projects that simply weren’t needed.<\/p>\n “However, Japan has a new government that has promised to shrink the country’s massive bureaucracy and cut wasteful public spending. It also intends to end more than 20 years of economic stagnation by cutting taxes and focusing on small and mid-sized businesses.<\/p>\n “Japanese stocks have rallied off the lows of 10 months ago. In fact, the Tokyo Exchange is one of the world’s best-performing bourses so far in 2010.<\/p>\n “But it’s still among the cheapest and most unloved in the world. Virtually no one is enthusiastic about Japanese stocks.”<\/p>\n Virtually no one? Hey…that’s us!<\/p>\n Another colleague, Merryn Somerset Webb, says it’s time to buy Toyota. “You don’t get a chance to buy companies like Toyota at book value very often,” she says.<\/p>\n Regards,<\/p>\n Bill Bonner Similar Posts:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alex Green on Japanese shares: “Here’s a handy way to know when to sell your investments: everyone is talking about them. “There is an obvious corollary to knowing what to sell. If you want to know what to buy, consider what no one is talking about. “And that brings me to investing in Japan… “From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328907","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\/4277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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