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Global Steel: Is It Relevant for Japan?
Japan has a very large sovereign debt load and they can't afford significant interest rates on their debt. They also want to maintain very easy monetary conditions despite the fact that the placements above their target. For the first time in many, many decades to see a very large developed country try to artificially suppress essentially its entire yield curve below the prevailing inflation rate. And so this is kind of like a real-time experiment.