With all this talk of worldwide deflation, can this happen to Aus S&P200 index? Link to Nikkei 40 year chat (it ain't pretty). How do you invest for a chart like this?

No matter how bad things are, there's always plenty opportunity. The S&P200 has gone down, significantly. Not all the companies in the S&P actually fell though. (This is why a while back I've been rather verbose on ETFs solve all your investment portfolio's needs).

I find our political and regulatory environments are (quite) a bit to blame. The RBA Governor, Glenn Stevens, put the fucking interest rates UP at the beginning of the fucking GFC! WTF? Since August last year APRA (the bank regulator) told the banks to increase their rates (yes... yes... on investor loans - also to tighten credit a bit and increased their capital provisions), even though the RBA was saying keep them low the economy needs it.

Globally interest rates are at record lows and what in the actual fuck is our govt. doing? They're paying off our debt, instead of borrowing to the hilt, building shit and taking on projects. (then again the way the govt. deals with projects maybe this could be argued as "a good thing").

Meanwhile, the public overall is more concerned about the liberal/labor debate and My Kitchen Rules or whatever. I mean we've got that dumb saying: if it ain't broken don't fix it. Yet nobody realises that things are quite broke. Also let's introduce lock out laws because fuck businesses.

Our universities are ranked among the top in the world and we export our students to places that actually allow you to make money without getting taxed to death, places that embrace innovation. Our whole venture capital is around the 150-200million mark (per year). That's like 1 small deal in the US... WTF people?

Good ol Turnbull is trying to talk about the need for innovation then "slam" comes talk about mo taxes... seriously? If I were an international investor I'd think this country's nuts. We've had what 5 prime minister changes in 6 years... How the hell can anybody bring a vision and implement it when they're replaced faster than the Kardashians spread open their legs?

Will Japan happen to us? Probably not, we're a little bit different structurally. We've also got a lot more of easing (from an interest rate perspective) available.

In conclusion we need freshness in politics, less regulation and smarter regulators... (I really really really hope Turnbull can provide that - fingers crossed, because I don't know)

tl;dr: the fish rots from the head.

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