Waging a new war : Japan has been suffering from deflation so long time. I would like to know why deflation happen in Japan? Because of falling the price of land, because of Chinese cheaper production? I don’t know.
Let’s change topic. What does happen when we are deflation. The deflation is raising the value of money. We need less money to buy goods and services. That sounds good. But since we would less pay to buy something, the companies will earn less profits and then companies will pay less money to their employee (like us), we will get less money in the future. So if we have money, deflation is good, but if we are going to earn money, deflation is not so good, if we have debt, inflation is not good, because we have to pay back the same amount of money even when payroll is decreasing.
How about inflation? Inflation is opposite. inflation is decreasing the value of money. We need more money to buy goods and services. That sounds bad. But since we would more pay to buy something, the companies will earn more profits and then companies will pay more money to their employee (like us), we will get more money in the future. So if we have money, inflation is not good, but if we are going to earn money, deflation is good, if we have debt, because we have to pay back the same amount of money even when payroll is increasing. So if we have money now, you had better spend money earlier, if we have debt, we had better pay later, which may be able to revitalize Japan.
The problem is ”will companies pay more during inflation?”
Asteroid mining : This is interesting. One of reason we have to study the space, is that gives us imagination. Mining Asteroid is promising source of valuable resources. The problem is we need to go to space (Haha!!) and also we need to research how to mine asteroid in space. Space technology is interesting, giving us challenging tasks to solve, which help improving technology. I would like to mention, the space is different atmosphere, I have been thinking for example, there is superconducting material that was discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on April 8, 1911. Since the material show the superconductivity in extremely low temperature, application on earth is difficult. But in the space, the situation is totally different, most of superconducting material shows superconductivity, we might think application more easily in the space.
America’s stock market : The Dow reaches a record high. I have been living in the U.S. I am surprised, how American company and stock market are strong. Japanese stock market is also going well, Nikkei average is around 13000 yen today (4/5).
I am so tired this week, I need to get rest. We are going to D.C. this week with bunch of my friends. I am looking forward to seeing cherry blossom. I like Spring. the fiscal year starts April in Japan. So every April, I expect something new. Also we have drinking party under cherry blossom. I miss Japan.