{"id":26085,"date":"2025-07-08T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=26085"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:59:18","slug":"will-japans-rice-price-shock-lead-to-government-collapse-and-spark-a-global-bond-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=26085","title":{"rendered":"Will Japan&#8217;s Rice Price Shock Lead To Government Collapse And Spark A Global Bond Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A little over a month ago, we first (and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Birdyword\/status\/1936028738891739309\">Economist about a month later<\/a>), summarized the plight of Japan&#8217;s soaring inflation and contracting economy with one word:\u00a0<strong>rice&#8230;.\u00a0<\/strong>well, technically it was a few more words. This is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zerohedge\/status\/1925743671988613516\">what we said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What is ironic, is that Japan does not actually have high core inflation; it does however have soaring rice prices which have skewed inflation expectations across the population as rice is a huge component of the overall CPI basket<\/strong>. Meanwhile the BOJ is scrambling to contain inflation &#8211; which has tumbled ex food with real wages near record lows &#8211; and is tightening conditions by raising rates even though it has zero control over food inflation. However, as a by product of its monetary policies and strong yen, the bond market is crashing every day now, and soon this bond crash will spread to Japan&#8217;s banks and global markets, sparking a global crisis.<\/p>\n<p>TL\/DR: Japan will unleash the next financial crash because the Japanese are now poor farmers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/will-japans-rice-price-shock-lead-government-collapse-and-spark-global-bond-crisis\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/will-japans-rice-price-shock-lead-government-collapse-and-spark-global-bond-crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}