Smart Reads April 4, 2013
The Bank of Japan has announced an aggressive move to increase the money supply and target deflation. Or, as Jonathan Soble puts it, Haruhiko Kuroda has come as close to scattering money from the back...
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Abe backs up big action with big talk
Shinzo Abe speaks at the Guildhall (Getty) Shinzo Abe didn’t tell his British audience at London’s Guildhall anything new about Abenomics, his programme to reflate Japan’s economy back to health. But...
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Japan’s quadrillion yen question
Not a milestone to rejoice in. Japan’s debt has tipped into the “quadrillion” zone for the first time. That is, as of the end of June, central government debt, looked like this: Y1,008,628,100,000,000,...
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Smart Reads October 1, 2013
♦ The anxiety over Japan’s sales tax may seem bizarre to outsiders, but it will be a stern test of Shinzo Abe’s popularity. ♦ James Politi looks at the impact of the sequester on Head Start, arguably...
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Five reasons you should care about one very big trade agreement
There’s been a lot written in the FT and elsewhere about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. Here are five reasons you should care about this trade pact: 1. This is a big deal. If, or when, it is...
View ArticleAbenomics: Hit or miss?
It’s been a year since Shinzo Abe got financial markets excited with his plan to pull Japan’s economy out of its more than 15-year deflation. So has Abenomics been a success? Jonathan Soble, Tokyo...
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Deflation: Scary monsters (and super creeps)
TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images By Jonathan Soble Sermons from the IMF tend to make Japanese leaders fidget nervously in their pews – all fire and brimstone about budget deficits and the need for...
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Davos thoughts: Secular stagnation
Lawrence Summers (c) WEF On Thursday, I moderated a fascinating lunch-time discussion on “secular stagnation” with Lawrence Summers, former US treasury secretary, who has recently propounded this idea....
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