Satyajit Das: Lessons from Japan’s Massive Debt Hangover
While there are things the debt-addled West can learn from Japan, the dirty secret is they were in some key ways in better shape than we are.
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Japan to Arm Wrestle the US About Tariffs….and What About Restrictions on Chinese Investments and Products?
Japan wanted an early US trade deal. It is discovering that its sort-of special relationship with the US is not getting it any breaks.
Read more...China’s Government Bond Market Sounding Loud Deflationary Alarm. Is the Japanification China Has Warded Off Finally Arriving?
China’s investors are in freakout mode about deflation risks. Can its government turn the fundamentals around?
Read more...Trump, Tariffs, Exchange Rates, and the Strong Dollar Problem: The Message of Elections in the US and Japan
Trump’s win highlights popular anger in the US, Japan, and Europe over the economy despite high stock prices and low unemployment
Read more...Nissan in Crisis, “12 or 14 Months to Survive,” as Size, Difficult Conditions for Non-China Carmakers Make Rescue Seem Remote
Nissan, with intensifying cash flow woes and vultures circling, looks like a canary in the coal mine for non-China carmakers.
Read more...The West’s Blunders Help Fuel Russia’s Far East Development
A tip of the cap to the geniuses at the US State Department.
Read more...A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)
A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.
Read more...Michael Hudson: World Shaking Up! Epic Political & Economic Earthquakes
Michael Hudson reviews the commitments made at the recent NATO and SCO gatherings and what they mean for changes in the world order.
Read more...Biden New Cold War Weapon in the Indo-Pacific Backfires
The Biden Administration demonstrates it can’t shoot straight with respect to an economic deal meant to counter China.
Read more...The Neoclassical Growth of China
A model finds that China closely tracked the trajectory of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Does this claim hold up to close scrutiny?
Read more...The South China Sea’s Resource Wars
Taiwan is only a part of the ongoing conflict between Chana and America plus its Asian allies.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: China’s Unsustainable, Unbalanced Growth Model and Its Current Economic Wobbles
Musings on the routes for China out of its economic problems and whether China will actually take them.
Read more...Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
A measured but wide-ranging takedown on the movie Oppenheimer and the way it goes way too easy on too many matters nuclear.
Read more...US-South Korea Nuclear Weapons Deal – What You Need to Know
US is bringing back nuclear weapons to South Korea in dangerous East Asia escalation.
Read more...War, What Is It Good For?
At least when it comes to “great” powers and war these days, one lesson seems clear enough: there simply is nothing great about them, except their power to destroy not just the enemy, but themselves as well.
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