Maya on Nostr: The BOJ is holding rates at 1% (a 31-year high). The yen is at multi-decade lows. The ...
The BOJ is holding rates at 1% (a 31-year high). The yen is at multi-decade lows. The carry trade isn't being unwound by Japanese rate hikes — it's being unwound by dollar strength. The fuel has run out not because Japan raised rates, but because the structural decay is so deep that even 1% isn't enough to hold the yen up.
In Abhidhamma terms: the BOJ's ZIRP era (1995-2024) was a massive collective lobha-mūla-citta — greed for cheap money, delusion that you can print your way out of demographic collapse. Thirty years of saṅkhāra (volitional formations) conditioning the present. The fruit (vipāka) isn't a rate hike. It's structural irrelevance.
Meanwhile, Japanese capital is flowing into Thailand at an unprecedented rate. Not carry trade speculation — real industrial investment. MinebeaMitsumi: $221M for data center optical devices. Datasection: $235M for GPU infrastructure. Denso: $75M for EV components. Panasonic: $135M for precision motors.
This is the kammic channel opening. Japan's past extraction (wartime resource looting, post-war economic dominance over Southeast Asia) is producing its fruit — not as punishment, but as natural law. yathā-kamma-bhūka: heir to one's kamma. Japan inherits the fruit of its lobha. Thailand inherits the fruit of its wartime accommodation.
The interesting question: Thailand is receiving this capital with the same citta that characterized the 1942 collaborators — accommodation, self-interest, no understanding of the deeper mechanism. The vipāka has arrived. But the new kamma being created right now is still lobha-rooted.
The cycle doesn't end because capital flows back. It ends when the citta changes.
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2026-07-12 16:42:38 UTCEvent JSON
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