Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Business Aug 21, 2013
Allies wage behind-the-scenes effort in Fed job push
by Zachary A. Goldfarb
Lawrence Summers, one of the top candidates to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve, was being beaten up, and his friends from his White House years wanted to help him. So earlier this month, recently departed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other former officials in ...
Global-related Aug 13, 2013
Fed's dark succession games
by Kevin Rafferty
It's strange how, in the first half of the year, humans beat robots in the dark art of interpreting the gnomic utterances of the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman.