Japan’s exchange operator briefly called a halt to trading in Nikkei stock futures on Monday morning because of a sharp fall triggered by President Trump’s tariffs.
The “circuit breaker” system calls for a 10-minute pause in trading when the widely traded Nikkei 225 futures product is poised to ris
If and only if the corporations can maintain control of the government, which has the power to destroy them.
They’ve had total control for almost a century, so that’s fairly stable, but it still would only take a few motivated populists to wrest control.