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🚨 DAMN, DAMN, DAMN VERY BAD!!! 🇯🇵 Japan may have just snapped a 30-year global financial balance and the clock is ticking. Today, Japan’s 20-year bond yield pumped to 2.98%, the highest level ever recorded. That single number marks the end of the ultra-low-rate era that shaped global markets, pensions, and asset bubbles for three decades. And the implications are… brutal. Japan carries 263% debt-to-GDP, about $10.2 trillion. They survived this mountain of debt only because rates were pinned near zero. At 2.75%, the math shifts violently: Debt-service costs balloon from $162B → $280B over ten years. That’s 38% of government revenue just to cover interest. No country in modern history has managed debt like this without some form of default, restructuring, or heavy inflation. But here’s the part markets will feel first: Japan holds $3.2 trillion in foreign assets. Over $1.13 trillion in U.S. Treasuries alone. They bought foreign debt because Japanese bonds yielded almost nothing. Now their own bonds pay real return, and after hedging, U.S. Treasuries actually lose money for Japanese investors. So repatriation isn’t emotional. It’s arithmetic. Models point to ~$500 billion leaving global markets within 18 months. Then there’s the yen carry trade, roughly $1.2 trillion borrowed cheaply in yen and deployed around the world into stocks, crypto, EM, anything with yield. As Japanese rates rise and the yen strengthens, those trades turn toxic. Positions unwind. Forced selling accelerates. Some things are hard to deny: - The yield spread between U.S. and Japanese bonds shrank from 3.5% → 2.4% in half a year. Once it closes near 2%, Japanese capital flows home at scale. U.S. borrowing costs jump whether the Fed likes it or not. The Bank of Japan meets on January 22nd. There’s a real chance they hike again. If they do, the yen spikes and carry trades eat another quick 6% loss. Margin calls ripple everywhere. - Japan can’t print its way out. Inflation is already above comfort levels. Print more → yen collapses → import inflation spirals → domestic crisis. They’re wedged between a debt trap and a currency trap, and the exit door is shrinking. For 30 years, Japanese yields acted as the anchor keeping global rates artificially low. Every portfolio built since the mid-90s has quietly relied on that anchor. Today, it snapped. Whether people realize it yet or not, the world is shifting into an entirely different interest-rate regime, one few investors have ever lived through. How each market responds from here will define the next era of global finance. On another note, I called the last two major market tops publicly, and when I exit the market completely, I’ll share it here for everyone to see. If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.

Danny_Crypton's tweet photo. 🚨 DAMN, DAMN, DAMN VERY BAD!!!

🇯🇵 Japan may have just snapped a 30-year global financial balance and the clock is ticking.

Today, Japan’s 20-year bond yield pumped to 2.98%, the highest level ever recorded.

That single number marks the end of the ultra-low-rate era that shaped global markets, pensions, and asset bubbles for three decades.

And the implications are… brutal.

Japan carries 263% debt-to-GDP, about $10.2 trillion.

They survived this mountain of debt only because rates were pinned near zero.

At 2.75%, the math shifts violently:

Debt-service costs balloon from $162B → $280B over ten years.

That’s 38% of government revenue just to cover interest.

No country in modern history has managed debt like this without some form of default, restructuring, or heavy inflation.

But here’s the part markets will feel first:

Japan holds $3.2 trillion in foreign assets.
Over $1.13 trillion in U.S. Treasuries alone.

They bought foreign debt because Japanese bonds yielded almost nothing.

Now their own bonds pay real return, and after hedging, U.S. Treasuries actually lose money for Japanese investors.

So repatriation isn’t emotional.
It’s arithmetic.

Models point to ~$500 billion leaving global markets within 18 months.

Then there’s the yen carry trade, roughly $1.2 trillion borrowed cheaply in yen and deployed around the world into stocks, crypto, EM, anything with yield.

As Japanese rates rise and the yen strengthens, those trades turn toxic.
Positions unwind.

Forced selling accelerates.

Some things are hard to deny:

- The yield spread between U.S. and Japanese bonds shrank from 3.5% → 2.4% in half a year. Once it closes near 2%, Japanese capital flows home at scale. U.S. borrowing costs jump whether the Fed likes it or not.

The Bank of Japan meets on January 22nd. There’s a real chance they hike again.
If they do, the yen spikes and carry trades eat another quick 6% loss. Margin calls ripple everywhere.

- Japan can’t print its way out. Inflation is already above comfort levels.
Print more → yen collapses → import inflation spirals → domestic crisis.

They’re wedged between a debt trap and a currency trap, and the exit door is shrinking.

For 30 years, Japanese yields acted as the anchor keeping global rates artificially low.

Every portfolio built since the mid-90s has quietly relied on that anchor.

Today, it snapped.

Whether people realize it yet or not, the world is shifting into an entirely different interest-rate regime, one few investors have ever lived through.

How each market responds from here will define the next era of global finance.

On another note, I called the last two major market tops publicly, and when I exit the market completely, I’ll share it here for everyone to see.

If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.

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Jesse Cohen

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6 months ago

🚨Unconfirmed rumor making the rounds says a major bank collapsed on a silver margin call in overnight trading. I cannot verify that. In any case, watch these banks closely: 1. JPMorgan Chase $JPM 2. HSBC Holdings $HSBC 3. Scotiabank 4. BNP Paribas 5. UBS Group $UBS 6. Deutsche Bank $DB 7. Citigroup $C 8. Goldman Sachs $GS

JesseCohenInv's tweet photo. 🚨Unconfirmed rumor making the rounds says a major bank collapsed on a silver margin call in overnight trading.

I cannot verify that.

In any case, watch these banks closely:

1. JPMorgan Chase $JPM
2. HSBC Holdings $HSBC
3. Scotiabank
4. BNP Paribas
5. UBS Group $UBS
6. Deutsche Bank $DB
7. Citigroup $C
8. Goldman Sachs $GS

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TacticzHazel

@TacticzH

6 months ago

Get ready for 2026: 15 Asian companies to watch: $BABA - Alibaba 🇨🇳 $TCEHY - Tencent 🇨🇳 $BIDU - Baidu 🇨🇳 $PDD - PinDuoDuo 🇨🇳 $JD - JDcom 🇨🇳 $GRAB - GRAB 🇸🇬 $XIAOMI - Xiaomi Corp 🇨🇳 $TSM -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing 🇹🇼 $SE - Sea ltd 🇸🇬 $CPNG - Coupang 🇰🇷 $SAMSUNG - Samsung 🇰🇷 $SONY - Sony Group Corp 🇯🇵 $TM - Toyota Motor Corp 🇯🇵 $BHA - Bharat Electronics 🇮🇳 $TRENT - Trent LTD 🇮🇳 Which one is your favorite and which one would you add?

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