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FINANCIAL

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 5, 2014
Mitsubishi Estate profit up 73% on home sales
Mitsubishi Estate Co. said Wednesday its nine-month net income rose 73 percent as profit margins of its residential business improved.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2014
Europe's prospects looked better in the 1930s
Unless policies change, economic stagnation in the eurozone is likely to persist, posing in some ways a bigger challenge to recovery than the Great Depression did in the 1930s.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2013
Why banks shouldn't be blamed for the recession
Banks didn't cause — and shouldn't be punished for — the recession.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 12, 2013
Where is the global leadership?
Where are the clear thinkers who can dream of a plan to fix a broken global economic system, and where are the practical politicians who dare to try to shape a new world
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2013
Mizuho's grave governance problem
A third-party panel of lawyers has effectively labeled Mizuho Bank's inaction on its loans to underworld customers as a failure of governance and the result of major system problems since 2011.
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2013
Five years after the crisis
Five years after the Lehman implosion, stability has returned to the global financial system. But it remains fragile.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2013
Did capitalism fail in 2008?
How could reputable ratings agencies — and investment banks — misjudge things so badly just before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2013
Challenges are just beginning for central banks
The global financial crisis is for all practical purposes over, but the world's top central bankers think their problems are just beginning.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 12, 2013
Cerberus needs cooperation of Mizuho for next Seibu tack: Gomi
Cerberus Capital Management LP, the biggest shareholder of Seibu Holdings Inc., should approach Mizuho Financial Group Inc. to help it narrow its differences with the hotel operator, said Hirofumi Gomi, a former candidate for the Seibu board.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jul 8, 2013
Lobbyists keep SEC's executive-pay ratio rule in limbo
Soon after Congress approved the largest overhaul of financial regulation in generations, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to enforce what it considered one of the simpler parts of a mammoth and complicated law.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2013
Financial engineers restarting the risk generator
The last thing one would expect the U.S. government to do is open the floodgates to severe risks in financial markets again. But that is what's happening.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Apr 22, 2013
ASEAN looking a bit like '97
Amid the economic boom in many ASEAN countries, there is also a feeling of deja vu that current conditions resemble those on the eve of the '97 financial crisis.

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