2013-01-17

BOJ may pledge open-ended asset buying: sources


(Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will consider making an open-ended commitment next week to buy government bonds and other assets until 2 percent inflation is in sight and the economy is on a more solid footing, according to sources familiar with its thinking.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/18/us-japan-economy-nishimura-boj-idUSBRE90H02720130118

How about an open-ended commitment to safely cleanup and dispose of their radioactive cessium?

More than a year and a half since the nuclear crisis, much of Japan’s post-Fukushima cleanup remains primitive, slapdash and bereft of the cleanup methods lauded by government scientists as effective in removing harmful radioactive cesium from the environment.
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The politically connected companies have little radiological cleanup expertise and critics say they have cut corners to employ primitive — even potentially hazardous — techniques".
http://fatboysez.blogspot.com/2013/01/heck-of-job-brownie.html

A fish containing over 2,500 times Japan's legal limit for radiation in seafood has been caught in the vicinity of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility's operator reported.

­A ‘murasoi’ fish, similar to a rockfish, was caught at a port inside the plant, according to AFP. Plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) indicated that the amount of cesium measured 254,000 becquerels per kilogram – 2,540 times Japan's legal limit for radiation in seafood.
http://rt.com/news/japan-fish-radiation-fukushima-321/

Herr Schäuble Sprechen


Großbritannien hat höheren Staatsschulden, als der Eurozone Durchschnitt und ich nicht einmal die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika erwähnen möchten,“ Schaeuble sagte.
{Britain has a higher state debt than the eurozone average and I don't even want to mention the United States of America," Schaeuble said.}
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9809154/Britain-has-more-debt-than-the-eurozone-says-Germanys-Wolfgang-Schaeuble.html

2013-01-13

Grease




Electricity bills for most Greek consumers will go up 9 percent retroactively to Jan. 1, while a 100 percent property tax surcharge is still being tacked on to utility bills under the threat of power being disconnected, although state agencies that owe 170 million euros ($227 million) haven’t paid and have not lost their electricity.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/01/13/electric-bills-up-9-government-agencies-wont-pay/