from Zero Hedge
When we first heard this past Thursday that private blogger and Citadel employee Ben Bernanke was going to “secretly” meet with both the BOJ’s Haruhiko Kuroda and Japan PM Abe, we warned readers that “something big was coming.”
As noted late last week, “Bernanke will be in Japan next week. It has been arranged for him to meet officials including Abe and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, according to a government official speaking on condition of anonymity. Bernanke is expected to discuss Brexit and the BOJ’s negative interest rate policy with Abe and Kuroda, the official said.” Reuters also added that “some market players speculate Kuroda might decide, in a surprise, to provide “helicopter money.”
We concluded as follows: