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National flow of funds accounts: Japan

Bank of Japan, Tokyo

The Bank of Japan publishes quarterly statistics on Japanese national flow of funds accounts in Excel format, in English, on their website.

The flow of funds accounts is a matrix showing financial transactions among various economic entities, and corresponding stock data on financial claims and liabilities of them.

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UN SNA: Not ready for prime time

UN SNA: A product of the United Nations

In 1993, after thousands of hours of committee work by economists and bureaucrats from all nations, the United Nations, with the blessing of the International Monetary Fund, issued a recommendation for a System of National Accounts (known as SNA 1993).

Compared to the Federal Reserve National Flow of Funds Accounts, the United Nations SNA 1993 is not a product that is ready for prime time.

World Economy

What is ‘international liquidity’?

Hotel Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, 1944

It used to be that the term ‘international liquidity’ meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation’s monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation’s currency held by foreigners.

After Bretton Woods and the advent of the dollar-gold exchange standard, liquidity came to mean access to dollars, either held as reserves or as credit lines, or the SDR system maintained by the International Monetary Fund.

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Stock buybacks

The Stock Buyback Era evaluated

The buyback era began when the SEC allowed issuers to manipulate prices to give value to executive options. Stock buybacks since 1982, in 2008 dollars, total $5.77 trillion. More ...

Securities Analysis

Innovative institutional research methods

The Crash of 2008 led to questions concerning the scope and quality of institutional investment research. The flood of open source investment data on the Internet presents opportunities to researchers.There are new ways to manage institutional research, including separation of fact-gathering from data analysis, out-sourcing, student-sourcing, and home-sourcing, financial taxonomy, and semantic wikis.
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US Politics

President Obama's Lincoln moment

In mid 2009, Barack Obama found that Lincoln's saying, "You can't fool all of the people all of the time," applied to his presidency. Profligate spending and unpopular health reform ended Obama's honeymoon. More ...

US equities

Stock values and cash dividends wither

Wall Street ballyhoo and flim-flam to the contrary, the year 2005 closed-out half a decade of misery and pain for the average investor in US equities. Average cash dividend yields never surpassed 3.8% during the period, and most of this was consumed by taxes and management expenses of the open-end mutual funds. More ...

US Bonds

Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

World Economy

Working off the US trade deficit

Foreigners hold $16.8 trillion in US financial assets as a result of selling more goods to Americans than they buy from them. Since the 'deficit' is in dollars, the US has no problem in 'paying it off'. More ...

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