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避難所に物資を届けたりするときに仕入れをさせていただいていた宮城のスーパーに相談したところ、ホットカーペットの取り扱いはないのに知り合いの電気屋さんに協力を頼んで下さり、いろんなものを８０組ほど取り揃えてくださいました。
一緒に支援活動をしていた同僚と撮った写真をクリスマスカードに貼りつけ、メッセージと直筆サインを添えたものを宮城のスーパーに送ると、ひとつひとつ梱包して８０軒のご家庭に送ってくださいました。
徐々に被災者の方々に届いているようで、お電話やメールでお礼をいただいています。
突然のプレゼントになったので、みなさん喜んでくださっているようで、涙が出ましたとおっしゃる方もいらっしゃいます。
心も身体も温まってくださると幸いです。大きな荷物なので、邪魔にならないといいのですが。
ところで、最近、日本のニュースだけで生きているとまずいと思うようになっているので、海外メディアからニュースを取るよう努力しているのですが、こんなのみつけましたので、載せておきます。今後、このブログでも気がついた範囲で海外ニュースを取り上げたり出来るといいなと思っています。世界で流れているニュースって、ほんと、日本国内のニュースと全然違います。国際人として生きて行くためには、日本のニュースに埋もれて井の中の蛙になってちゃいけませんね。
要約するとS&Pという格付け会社が日本の格付けを下げるかもしれないという話です。ヨーロッパの中で断トツで優良なはずのドイツですら、売り出した国債が売れ残っちゃったんですよ。日本の国債はいつ爆発してもおかしくないですね・・・。
住宅ローン、固定金利にしとこうかな。
あ、それと、関係ないですけど、アブラハムと交信しているエスターおばさんのご主人が亡くなったようです。
Standard & Poor’s said Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration hasn’t made progress in tackling the public debt burden, an indication it may be preparing to lower the nation’s sovereign grade.
“Japan’s finances are getting worse and worse every day, every second,” Takahira Ogawa, director of sovereign ratings at S&P in Singapore, said in an interview. Asked if that means he’s closer to cutting Japan, he said it “may be right in saying that we’re closer to a downgrade. But the deterioration has been gradual so far, and it’s not like we’re going to move today.”
A reduction in S&P’s AA- rating would be a setback for Noda, who took office in September and has pledged to both steady Japan’s finances and implement reconstruction from the nation’s record earthquake in March. It’s unrealistic for Japan to think it can escape the debt woes that have engulfed nations overseas unless it can control its finances, according to Ogawa.
While Japan has enjoyed borrowing costs at global lows for its debt, the International Monetary Fund said in a report released on its website yesterday there’s a risk of a “sudden spike” in yields that could make the debt level unsustainable. Japanese government bonds fell after Ogawa’s remarks, sending 10-year yields to the highest level in three weeks.
Developed nations are struggling to retain investor confidence in their bonds after borrowing deepened with the global recession and financial crisis. Germany yesterday failed to get sufficient bids to sell all of the 10-year securities it offered to sell.
‘Comprehensive’ Plan
S&P has had Japan on a negative outlook since April. Ogawa said the nation needs a “comprehensive approach” to containing its debt burden, which the government projects will exceed 1 quadrillion yen ($13 trillion) in the year through March as the nation pays for reconstruction.
The yen pared gains and traded at 77.18 per dollar at 6:04 p.m. in Tokyo. Yields on Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond rose to 0.995 percent from the previous close of 0.965 percent. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell 1.8 percent to 8,165.18, its lowest close since March 2009.
“The events in Europe show us that when you lose market confidence at some point, the situation deteriorates fast,” Ogawa said. “Politicians need to act with the understanding that they’re running out of time” to fix the nation’s finances. “If you don’t act early, it’ll become even more difficult” to maintain market trust, he said.
Tax Increase
Japan’s lower house of parliament today approved legislation that would add an additional 2.1 percent levy to an individual’s annual payment. Lawmakers revised the government’s proposal to extend the period of the measure to 25 years, from 10 years, to help pay for earthquake rebuilding. The measure takes effect in 2013.
“Just because this passes doesn’t mean that it’s positive for public finances,” Ogawa said. “Politicians are squabbling over the minute details, while avoiding what’s most important.”
While Japan’s policy makers have signaled they will double the nation’s sales tax from 5 percent by around 2015, a bill has yet to be enacted.
Moody’s Investors Service cut the nation’s debt rating by one step to Aa3 on Aug. 24. S&P lowered Japan to AA- in January. Fitch Ratings also has Japan at AA- with a negative outlook.
“Absent an offsetting effect from more rapid growth, debt dynamics could deteriorate precariously,” the IMF said in a report published on its website. “Once confidence in sustainability erodes, authorities could face an adverse feedback loop between rising yields, falling market confidence” and “a more vulnerable financial system,” it said.
Politically, Noda is struggling to find solutions that the opposition political parties will accept, said Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute Inc.
“This shows how political compromises can hinder what needs to be done for the economy,” Kumano said.
By Bloomberg
避難所に物資を届けたりするときに仕入れをさせていただいていた宮城のスーパーに相談したところ、ホットカーペットの取り扱いはないのに知り合いの電気屋さんに協力を頼んで下さり、いろんなものを８０組ほど取り揃えてくださいました。
一緒に支援活動をしていた同僚と撮った写真をクリスマスカードに貼りつけ、メッセージと直筆サインを添えたものを宮城のスーパーに送ると、ひとつひとつ梱包して８０軒のご家庭に送ってくださいました。
徐々に被災者の方々に届いているようで、お電話やメールでお礼をいただいています。
突然のプレゼントになったので、みなさん喜んでくださっているようで、涙が出ましたとおっしゃる方もいらっしゃいます。
心も身体も温まってくださると幸いです。大きな荷物なので、邪魔にならないといいのですが。
ところで、最近、日本のニュースだけで生きているとまずいと思うようになっているので、海外メディアからニュースを取るよう努力しているのですが、こんなのみつけましたので、載せておきます。今後、このブログでも気がついた範囲で海外ニュースを取り上げたり出来るといいなと思っています。世界で流れているニュースって、ほんと、日本国内のニュースと全然違います。国際人として生きて行くためには、日本のニュースに埋もれて井の中の蛙になってちゃいけませんね。
要約するとS&Pという格付け会社が日本の格付けを下げるかもしれないという話です。ヨーロッパの中で断トツで優良なはずのドイツですら、売り出した国債が売れ残っちゃったんですよ。日本の国債はいつ爆発してもおかしくないですね・・・。
住宅ローン、固定金利にしとこうかな。
あ、それと、関係ないですけど、アブラハムと交信しているエスターおばさんのご主人が亡くなったようです。
Standard & Poor’s said Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration hasn’t made progress in tackling the public debt burden, an indication it may be preparing to lower the nation’s sovereign grade.
“Japan’s finances are getting worse and worse every day, every second,” Takahira Ogawa, director of sovereign ratings at S&P in Singapore, said in an interview. Asked if that means he’s closer to cutting Japan, he said it “may be right in saying that we’re closer to a downgrade. But the deterioration has been gradual so far, and it’s not like we’re going to move today.”
A reduction in S&P’s AA- rating would be a setback for Noda, who took office in September and has pledged to both steady Japan’s finances and implement reconstruction from the nation’s record earthquake in March. It’s unrealistic for Japan to think it can escape the debt woes that have engulfed nations overseas unless it can control its finances, according to Ogawa.
While Japan has enjoyed borrowing costs at global lows for its debt, the International Monetary Fund said in a report released on its website yesterday there’s a risk of a “sudden spike” in yields that could make the debt level unsustainable. Japanese government bonds fell after Ogawa’s remarks, sending 10-year yields to the highest level in three weeks.
Developed nations are struggling to retain investor confidence in their bonds after borrowing deepened with the global recession and financial crisis. Germany yesterday failed to get sufficient bids to sell all of the 10-year securities it offered to sell.
‘Comprehensive’ Plan
S&P has had Japan on a negative outlook since April. Ogawa said the nation needs a “comprehensive approach” to containing its debt burden, which the government projects will exceed 1 quadrillion yen ($13 trillion) in the year through March as the nation pays for reconstruction.
The yen pared gains and traded at 77.18 per dollar at 6:04 p.m. in Tokyo. Yields on Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond rose to 0.995 percent from the previous close of 0.965 percent. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell 1.8 percent to 8,165.18, its lowest close since March 2009.
“The events in Europe show us that when you lose market confidence at some point, the situation deteriorates fast,” Ogawa said. “Politicians need to act with the understanding that they’re running out of time” to fix the nation’s finances. “If you don’t act early, it’ll become even more difficult” to maintain market trust, he said.
Tax Increase
Japan’s lower house of parliament today approved legislation that would add an additional 2.1 percent levy to an individual’s annual payment. Lawmakers revised the government’s proposal to extend the period of the measure to 25 years, from 10 years, to help pay for earthquake rebuilding. The measure takes effect in 2013.
“Just because this passes doesn’t mean that it’s positive for public finances,” Ogawa said. “Politicians are squabbling over the minute details, while avoiding what’s most important.”
While Japan’s policy makers have signaled they will double the nation’s sales tax from 5 percent by around 2015, a bill has yet to be enacted.
Moody’s Investors Service cut the nation’s debt rating by one step to Aa3 on Aug. 24. S&P lowered Japan to AA- in January. Fitch Ratings also has Japan at AA- with a negative outlook.
“Absent an offsetting effect from more rapid growth, debt dynamics could deteriorate precariously,” the IMF said in a report published on its website. “Once confidence in sustainability erodes, authorities could face an adverse feedback loop between rising yields, falling market confidence” and “a more vulnerable financial system,” it said.
Politically, Noda is struggling to find solutions that the opposition political parties will accept, said Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute Inc.
“This shows how political compromises can hinder what needs to be done for the economy,” Kumano said.
By Bloomberg
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