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Robin J Brooks
Personal blog · robinjbrooks.substack.comeconomicsbusiness
Robin J Brooks's personal blog at robinjbrooks.substack.com covers economics and business. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover macro and markets: Japan's debt and bond yields, silver and gold selloffs, and the risk of a US economic crash. Comments link them as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A daily newsletter on everything going on in global macro, covering everything from interest rates, foreign exchange, oil and precious metals prices to sanctions and macro policy.
What Hacker News says?
This is old information. Japan's borrowing costs have spiked and are ~2.18% as of this comment. Yields are surging due to their debt load (currently ~240% of GDP). Citations: https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-bond-yield https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/jgb-trade-excite... https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/japan-bond-market-dollar-ye... https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2026012067/jap…
Comment linking /p/how-japan-can-escape-its-debt-overhang
on “The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says”Submitted Is the Yen Carry Trade Spiking Global Yields? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHenry Kissinger once said (I am paraphrasing) - you be US's enemy but you be its ally at your own peril. Post 90s Japan lost its identity and autonomy to US hegemony. There is a great book called Princess of Yen that outlines how US with its highest intelligence operative basically orchestrated the fall of Japan from a net surplus in the 90s to a highest debt-to-GDP sub-servant state of US hegemony to the point the…
Comment linking /p/japans-interest-rate-disaster
on “The Tradeoffs Facing Japan's Economy”Submitted How a Global Debt Crisis Starts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-k...
Comment linking /p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
on “Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles”Submitted Mexico's Growth Stagnation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-principal-agent-prob...
Comment linking /p/the-principal-agent-problem-at-the
on “Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon”Submitted China's FX Laundromat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor a better-credentialed opinion on Japan, here's the former Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs: https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/debt-crisis-in-japan
Comment linking /p/debt-crisis-in-japan
on “The Great Unwind”
