Some Notes on North Korea
Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.
Read more...Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.
Read more...A short and devastating proof that QE was a bust in Japan.
Read more...Adding to the tally of how the UK will come out a loser thanks to Brexit.
Read more...Puzzling over Japan’s super low unemployment with continued deflation.
Read more...A skeptical look at a defense of stock market valuations.
Read more...Why you should not believe media accounts that depict Japan as a basket case in the making.
Read more...A look at America’s misguided Asia policies.
Read more...Two economists offer recommendations on how to defend Europe from an upsurge of populism. Unfortunately, their ideas give cause for pause.
Read more...Trump and Abe send signals over Japan involvement in developing US high-speed rail– good news for stalled California project?
Read more...In the absence of that countervailing force, then, if we elect to turn away from the US and ANZUS then what we are most likely going to achieve is to accelerate the rise of a new imperial order.
Read more...Are central banks finally beating a retreat on their failed NIRP strategies?
Read more...Introduction Regular readers will be fully up to speed on the Reserve Bank of India’s botched attempt at a handbrake turn style demonetisation thanks to Jerri-Lynn Scofield’s thorough coverage (see here, here and here for more background on this sorry tale). But the Indian government’s attempt at implementing a strategy of moving an economy away from physical cash […]
Read more...The whinging from entitled Brits over the fact that the EU is playing Brexit hardball is getting annoying.
Read more...Has the progressive left in western democracies forgotten how to embrace the mainstream? When I compare the approach which anti-neoliberal causes take in the U.S. and Europe with the approach taken by the same causes in Asian countries, especially Japan, I can only say yes, it has. One explanation for how pro-labor movements have been […]
Read more...Banks have had it with negative interest rates and are starting to push back.
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