{"id":8759,"date":"2013-05-06T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2013-05-07T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T11:03:25","slug":"economics-and-mini-skirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/economics-and-mini-skirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics And Mini-Skirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050613_0106_EconomicsAn1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Years from now we&#8217;ll likely see a rise in Japanese economic majors. When we do Jun Hongo&#8217;s article will be cited as the reason for this surge:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new pop-idol group called Machikado Keiki Japan base their costumes on the stock price index of the day.<\/li>\n<li>The higher the price, the shorter their skirts get. When the index crossed 13,000 the group went without skirts altogether.<\/li>\n<li>The groups&#8217; lyrics include such gems as &#8220;Fix the yen&#8217;s appreciation. Quantitative easing. Don&#8217;t forget public investment&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>During performances crowds of (mostly male) fans are known to yell out terms like &#8220;Monetary policy!&#8221; and &#8220;Private investment!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps non-coincidentally Japan&#8217;s stock market has been surging in recent times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the fascinating group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/05\/03\/national\/girl-group-bases-style-on-nikkei-ups-and-downs\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2013\/05\/03\/national\/girl-group-bases-style-on-nikkei-ups-and-downs\/\">The Japan Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/05\/japan-again-better-than-ever.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years from now we&#8217;ll likely see a rise in Japanese economic majors. When we do Jun Hongo&#8217;s article will be cited as the reason for this surge: A new pop-idol group called Machikado Keiki Japan base their costumes on the stock price index of the day. The higher the price, the shorter their skirts get. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/050613_0106_EconomicsAn1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}