Economy
Fed to start tapering bond purchases this year: Bernanke
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The Federal Reserve maintains its $85 billion-a-month asset purchase program, but says it could begin scaling back later this year.
Nicolas Gattig
Nicolas Gattig is a teacher and writer from San Francisco. His articles/essays about politics and education have been published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SOMA magazine, Street Sheet, and the Japan Times. He is greatly interested in literature and the effects of culture.
For Nicolas Gattig's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Issues | THE ZEIT GIST Nov 13, 2012
Failing students: Japanese universities facing reckoning or reform
I had been warned of the “Circus,” yet still I was unprepared. A vast lecture hall, students scattered, some of their chats undisturbed by the start of class. I write notes on the board; not a single pen takes the cue. A while into ...
Issues | THE ZEIT GIST Nov 22, 2011
MacArthur, identity theory and Japan's lingering eigo woes
Some years ago I was teaching an advanced English class in San Francisco that featured a hodgepodge of students from all over the world. Just as the range of cultures and accents extended from Europe to the Middle East to Asia and South America, ...