While I agree that this is a bad move, I remember back when I was growing up in the 90's there was this big fear that Japan was going to buy up all of America, especially after a Japanese businessman bought the Seattle Mariners.

Now every time I get to the bottom it refreshes before I can click on a link.

If it ever does need refinishing, sometimes you just need a refresh, which is a light sanding and another coat of poly.

I speak pretty fluent korean, ****** "currently studying here at school" japanese, and of course native english. my girlfriend is Japanese so she speaks native Japanese, good conversational korean, but probably couldn't translate at a hospital or Dr's "I've studied 5 years she's studied about 2", and she speaks great english, so between us we've got no problems with those 3 languages.

There doesn't seem to be much improvement in the economy, although I heard the Case-Schiller index did show some increase in housing values this time...Whatever one thinks of welfare programs, we don't currently have the necessary social safety net to support 8 or 9% unemployment as the "new normal" in this country, nor do we have the high personal savings rate that allowed the Japanese to get through their lost decade.

I've always felt that teaching is the best method of learning so this could be a good opportunity to refresh my investing techniques.

Then you can get back in the swing of things feeling refreshed or recharged.

@Brie Schmidt - Thank you as well, my browser wasn't refreshed when you posted - I'm going to post my own thread.

Your honesty is refreshing!

This is what happened to one Japanese investor in the late 1980's in Los Angeles.