But it will not be achieved without strong public policies and forward-looking business strategies.

The commonplace gloom about Japan's prospects is grossly overdone — many countries would be lucky to have its problems.

China's huge and increasingly affluent domestic market will make exports less vital to growth.

Over the next year, the bitcoin price could double, soar tenfold, or collapse by 95 percent or more, and no economic analysis can help predict where in that range it will lie.

China's continued economic success calls into question longstanding assumptions about the optimal balance of state and market mechanisms in driving economic development.

The benefits of having a rapidly growing youthful population is fast fading as advances in automation reduce labor-intensive employment opportunities.

Neither negative interest rates nor further expansion of the BOJ's already huge program of quantitative easing will be sufficient to offset the strong deflationary forces that Japan now faces.