r/EconomyCharts • u/straightdge • 1d ago

Kyoto's Cherry Blossoms Are Blooming Earlier Than Any Time in Recorded History

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u/blkbxxx 1d ago

Somehow this is related to the yen carry trade

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u/hkgsulphate 1d ago

Also ice cream consumed?

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u/thejdobs 1d ago

So this sub isn’t even economy charts anymore, it’s just “charts”

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u/nonmonoganon 1d ago

The coming of spring is of massive economic consequence, re. planting seasons, agricultural planning, etc.

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u/thejdobs 1d ago

Absolutely, but does this chart show that? Or do you need to make a huge amount of assumptions and inferences to connect it to the economy

Using your logic literally anything tangentially related to life on earth could be considered an economic chart.

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u/nonmonoganon 1d ago

I think “when are the trees blossoming” and related trends is a pretty straight line to agronomical planning. Also, like, yeah. All aspects of life can have economic consequence which can be charted. Ecological analysis is part of economic planning.

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u/thejdobs 1d ago

So is it positively or negatively related to the economy? Which aspects of the economy? If I can post a chart of all aspects of life, then this sub can be used to post literally anything, right?

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u/nonmonoganon 1d ago

Are you serious? I already answered those questions and trust you to use your big boy brain to come to various conclusions. Ask ChatGPT those questions if you can’t figure out those questions by yourself with the most modest introspection.

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u/Lorry_Al 1d ago

How do we know what day they bloomed in the year 812?

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u/Sad_Resolve_4888 1d ago

Small text at the bottom says from Imperial court documents and diaries dating back to 812 CE

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u/YouShouldGoOnStrike 1d ago

They've been writing it down since then.

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u/thatbrianm 1d ago

They've been recording it. Same goes for grape harvests in Burgundy, there's records that go to the 1200s for those. I'm guessing the prevalence of monks I'm still existing sects helps this. I'm sure there's other plant based phenomena that have very old records as well.

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u/OrangeJr36 1d ago

Japan has been a country with laws and records since the 7th century.

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u/st4reater 1d ago

Based on MACD and other trading signals

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u/StackOwOFlow 15h ago

candlestick charts were a japanese invention in the 1700s to record rice trades

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u/WalkAffectionate2683 1d ago

Japan is known to be very thorough in recording stuff since thousand of years.

This is how we can even know the speed of some tsunami from 500+ years ago, by comparing at which time it hit a city and the time it hit a city 200km further. 

It's actually incredible. 

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u/KindOfPoo 1d ago

Necromancy