Game Over Japan: Real Wages Crash Most In 21st Century, Savings Rate Turns Negative

Japan is toast.  They are trapped in a Keynesian debt (death) spiral.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-26/game-over-japan-real-wages-crash-most-21st-century-savings-rate-turns-negative

Game over, Japan

It appears the breaking point for a country to default on its obligations is when 50% of tax revenues are used to pay the interest on its debt.

http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/game-over-japan-15686/

When you see this happen, you’ll know it’s game over for the dollar. I give it 2-3 years.

http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/when-you-see-this-happen-youll-know-its-game-over-for-the-dollar-i-give-it-2-3-years-14688/

Game Over - “It’s All A Farce, The Fed & German Gold Is Gone”

Scheisse!

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/7/9_Game_Over_-_Its_All_A_Farce%2C_The_Fed_%26_German_Gold_Is_Gone.html

And by the way, Eric, we may own some of the gold that Germany thinks that they own.  But Germany will never see that gold because it’s safely stored in my account (and) for our investors at the Hong Kong International Airport.

Regarding that gold, which could have had the symbol of the Bundesbank on it when it arrived in Hong Kong, a leading refiner, one of the biggest in the world that deals with the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), certified that, ‘Yes, we’ve got gold available that we can deliver.  We’ve melted it down, we’ve tested it.  It may have had the Bundesbank symbol on it when it arrived, but now it’s melted down .9999 (fine) gold.’ 

That’s how it works in practice.  So the Fed gold, that Americans think is theirs, is gone.  The gold that the Germans have been told they will get back in 7 years, they’ll never get back because it doesn’t exist anymore (at the Fed).  I own it.  The People’s Bank of China owns it.  The Reserve Bank of India owns it.  The central bank of Russia owns it.  But the people of Germany (and America) don’t own it.”