Editorial May 1, 2012

Slow but steady economic recovery

Japan’s economic prospects are not very bright due to the effects of the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami and the stronger yen. But it is not that the prospects are completely gloomy. The government’s monthly assessment of the economy for April released in mid-April by ...

Commentary Mar 22, 2012

Pinpointing the causes of the U.S. economic crisis

by Robert J. Samuelson

Four years after the onset of the financial crisis — in March 2008 Bear Stearns was rescued from failure — we still lack a clear understanding of the underlying causes. Hundreds of studies and books have given us an increasingly detailed picture of what ...

Global-related Dec 22, 2010

Reviving the West is key

by Gordon Brown

LONDON — In 2008, at a time of financial peril, the world united to restructure the global banking system. In 2009, as trade collapsed and unemployment rose dramatically, the world came together for the first time in the Group of 20 to prevent a ...