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Resurrect Posts on Japan and the Yen

October 22, 2012 | klr

As the Yen and Japan continue to get more interesting in my mind, I just wanted to resurrect some posts that I have done on Japan and the Yen and sort them by my favorites. Japan Trade by Geographic RegionJapanese Trade and the YenJapan Intentional or...

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Japan Trade More Specifically with Korea

March 13, 2012 | klr

Macro analysis of Japanese trade in posts Japanese Trade and the Yen and Japan Trade by Geographic Region revealed some very interesting changes. Since the Korean Won is so undervalued versus the Japanese Yen on a Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) ba...

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Japan Trade by Geographic Region

March 12, 2012 | klr

To further the analysis presented in Japanese Trade and the Yen, I thought I would take the more granular data provided by the Japanese Ministry of Finance on trade by geographic region. Of course, I will use R to read, analyze, and plot the .csv...

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Japanese Trade and the Yen

March 7, 2012 | klr

I have had the pleasure over the last couple of weeks to help plan the CFA Society of Alabama 2012 Dinner featuring Jim Rogers and Barron’s Senior Editor Jack Willoughby. The event was fantastic, and I would like to publicly thank Jim Rogers an...

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Are We Japanese?

January 13, 2012 | klr

Most of the discussion trying to determine if the U.S. is Japan 20 years later focuses on the economy and the stock market. However, one of the biggest and most persistent correlations between Japan and the U.S. are the Japanese Yen and the U.S. ...

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Japan Stagnation Myth?

December 28, 2011 | Christopher Gandrud

I came across this piece on The Atlantic website by Eamonn Fingleton arguing that Japan's two decade long stagnation is largely a myth. I'm not willing, just yet, to completely go along with his thesis that this myth has been stoked by the Japanes...

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Typos in Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods with R

October 12, 2011 | xi'an

The two translators of our book in Japanese, Kazue & Motohiro Ishida, contacted me about some R code mistakes in the book. The translation is nearly done and they checked every piece of code in the book, an endeavour for which I am very grateful! Here are the two issues they ... [Read more...]

Japan Intentional or Accidental Pursuit of Deflation

February 3, 2011 | klr

Japan’s intentional or accidental pursuit of deflation has caused an imbalance far greater than Bernanke’s pursuit of inflation. Japanese policymakers have allowed Yen appreciation versus all other currencies. It appears that they recog...

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