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Jens Nordvig - Japan’s Debt Crisis: A Global Economic Contagion?

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Is Japan Exacerbating the Debt Problem?

This is something that I think for investors that are thinking about asset location trading in 2023 is one of the most important issues, right? Because you're going to have different countries with different debt levels, different leverage and different sensitivity to moving interest rates around. If inflation is moved from one to three, then moving interest rates by 1% of points or slightly more than that. It's not really a lot. So the real problem for debt dynamics come when the interest rate moves more than the normal growth in the economy. The question you can have is if inflation starts to move, are they really willing to move that normal interest rate sufficiently to generate any increase in real interest rates? And that

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