Japan Is Leading A World Trend Where No One Wants To Go: Lost Decades

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Mark Melin
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There is a major societal trend taking place that will impact the developed world in a serious way. Japan is on the leading edge, but other nations will soon catch up, a UBS report notes. The “lost decades” of Japan, where monetary gymnastics have tried everything except one solution, might be a leading export of the island nation due to an ever aging world population. [dalio] The aging of a society is document-able with highly correlated economic attributes When looking at the ratio of those dependent in society to those working, Japan had peak workers in 1990. Since then the society…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.