You have no fun.Let’s consider… Japan (just booked this exact trip). 2 Citi AA cards and 2 hotel cards will get you and your significant other 4 nights in a $1000+ a night hotel and cover the airfare.

Hm. ok, well it's not like we planned to be engaged long anyway. there's a possibility of him getting deployed to Japan, and if we're married I'd be able to go with him.

But coming back to our real world, the concerns are about an economy that continues to be in the doldrums for ages (like Japan), or inflation that gets too high for comfort, etc.

Look at Japan to see how very low rates can continue for a long time.In just my personal case, I bought my first personal house in 1992.

:-D Toto was all I saw in Japan.

Cut the massive waste out of defense, sell the bases in Europe and Japan, sell-off excess federal land, and close seven cabinet departments - EPA, HUD, Education, Labor, Agriculture, HHS, and Energy.

I have seen it speculated that Japan will suck more oil off the market and drive up the price some with 20% of its energy no longer being supplied by nuclear reactors.

The European Union and Japan have followed along with this game plan which cannot continue to kick the can down that road, forever.

, bubbles of various types, Chinese taking over the world (except when it was Japan), European debt collapse, Argentina, gold!

This guy just called after emailing yesterday, he's based in Manhattan and wants to show it to a client coming in from Japan.