🇯🇵 Japan’s Debt Crisis 💴
•3rd-largest economy $4T GDP
•Holds $1+T in U.S. Treasuries
•Debt: 250% of GDP
(Greece collapsed at 180%)
•Social security: 33% of budget
•Debt interest: 25%
•Defense spending: 2% of GDP
Japan must keep rates near zero to survive… but needs a strong yen to afford imports.
For years, they borrowed cheap U.S. dollars & bought yen to stabilize the system. That’s over.
Recent rate hike? Nearly blew it all up.
Tried: cash handouts, subsidies, emergency measures. Just digging a deeper hole.
This is a bad shock wave away from a global tsunami.












