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MACROECONOMICS 3

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 21, 2020
Macroeconomic challenges amid the COVID-19 crisis
The government faces a difficult road ahead in guiding the economy through all the twists and turns of the pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2019
The politics of frustration in Latin America
All over Latin America, public patience is wearing thin, with violence in Chile and the return to power of Peronists in Argentina. For almost 40 years, leaders and voters have struggled to realign economies with global markets, leavening the adjustment with social policies to protect the worst-off. Center-right and center-left coalitions agreed on broad strokes. While they argued over taxes and other issues, Latin Americans accepted the need for foreign markets and foreign investment.
EDITORIALS
Oct 17, 2019
The U.S. and China declare a trade war truce
Japan is pleased to see the U.S. and China reach an agreement as the trade war is one of the biggest sources of global economic uncertainty.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2019
China won't be able to save the world economy this time
Beijing played a pivotal role in reviving global growth after recessions in 2001 and 2008, but things are very different now.
EDITORIALS
Jul 12, 2019
Central banks under attack
The world needs strong and capable economic management.
EDITORIALS
Apr 11, 2019
'A delicate moment' for the global economy
The biggest cloud hanging over the international economy is the prospect of a trade war between the United States and China, and a concomitant erosion of the commitment to free and open trade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 11, 2019
We're not even close to the next great recession
The IMF's latest numbers show a worrisome trajectory, but they aren't terrible.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2019
The consequences of global uncertainty
A broad economic slowdown should come as no surprise.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 27, 2018
2019: Reasons to be bullish or bearish
It was in September 2008 that the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered an economic shock leading to a global recession. Since then, most countries have gradually recovered, and in recent years what came to be called a Great Moderation permeated the world's economies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2018
The new tyranny of the dollar
Under U.S. President Donald Trump, however, a sophisticated set of tools known as secondary sanctions has become a bludgeon with which to threaten allies.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2018
The restructuring of the world
The global economy is undergoing a far-reaching transformation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2018
Who really creates growth in an economy?
Contrary to the post-crisis consensus, strategic public sector investment is critical to growth.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2018
A decade after the 'Lehman shock'
We may soon discover how well we learned the lessons of the Lehman shock.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2018
The rise of state capitalism 2.0
The fall of the Berlin Wall almost 30 years ago represented a high-water mark in the retreat of the state from the global economy, signaling a defeat of socialist economics virtually worldwide. From dirigiste France to communist China, countries with widely divergent economic models began to adopt a more laissez-faire policymaking approach, predicated on the idea that the less state intervention, the better.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 2, 2018
Japan, savings superpower of the world
Japan's renaissance as the world champion surplus saver and source of financial capital is a key consequence of Abenomics and the domestic economic recovery.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2018
Emerging vulnerabilities in emerging economies
For many emerging economies, it is imperative to pursue a rebalancing of growth patterns, with a more active approach to managing debt and capital flows and their effects on asset prices, exchange rates, and growth. Otherwise, the dangers of unsustainable growth patterns will bring expansion to an abrupt halt.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2018
Still arguing over the Lehman collapse
Paulson et al. still claim they did all that could be done to save the troubled firm.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 30, 2018
High energy prices and semiconductor-related product demand helped world trade mark first rise in three years: JETRO
Global trade in 2017 grew 10.5 percent from the previous year to $17.32 trillion, marking the first rise in three years due to higher energy prices and robust demand for semiconductor-related products, according to a report by a Japan trade body released Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2018
The debt shackles return despite global expansion
Global growth is accelerating, but before we break out the champagne we should acknowledge the long-term risks to sustained expansion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2017
The 2018 outlook for major central banks
The biggest risk to asset prices and the global economy would be if the most powerful institutions reduce their monetary stimulus at the same time.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on