Musings from a financial translator in Tokyo (and now London)
Posted in Sports on Jun 27th, 2010
Wow, England got absolutely hammered. They played absolutely horribly the first 30 minutes – I guess the US isn’t the only team having trouble early in games. 1) A lot of people are going to point to the final score and say that the non-call on Lampard’s goal didn’t change the outcome of the game. [...]
Posted in Sports on Jun 26th, 2010
EDIT: Well, a disapppointing loss for the US vs Ghana – the second WC in a row to go out to Ghana. The US wasted perhaps the best draw they could get to the semi-finals because they can’t seem to stop giving up goals in the first 5 minutes of the starting whistle. Give them [...]
Posted in Japan on Jun 13th, 2010
Read about this earlier, but forgot about it until reading Japan without the Sugar earlier today. So let’s see: Japan’s public debt is careening towards 200% of GDP. The country has gone through 3 prime ministers in less than 3 years, the country remains in the grips of deflation, its population is aging, it has [...]