Business Jul 1, 2017

BOJ issues rare apology over board member's remark about Hitler's economic policies

The Bank of Japan has issued a rare apology over a board member's praise for Adolf Hitler's economic policies. Yutaka Harada, a member of the central bank's Policy Board, told a seminar on Thursday that Hitler's economic policies had been "appropriate" and "wonderful" but had ...

Commentary / World Jan 9, 2014

Europe's prospects looked better in the 1930s

by Nicholas Crafts

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.