Martin Wolf Defends Central Banks’ Negative Interest Rate Policies
The Financial Times’ lead economics writer, Martin Wolf, makes an intellectually bogus case for negative interest policies.
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Negative Interest Rates – Are There Any Positives?
The more you look at negative interest rates, the harder it is to find anything to like.
Read more...Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
The Fukushima site is still leaking radioactive water and the cleanup and remediation will take decades.
Read more...New York Times’ Bank-Boosting, Neoliberal-Excusing Story of the Global Debt Hangover
A new story at the New York Times on the global debt overhang is an economically warped account that omits important policy options.
Read more...Identifying Vectors Influencing China’s (and International) Markets
A list of some of the factors driving the recent market upheaval in China. Readers will hopefully add to and refine this compilation.
Read more...The Internet of Things – Supplied or Demanded?
An intriguing comparison of how the Internet of Things is being sold in the US and Japan.
Read more...Japan Proves that “Fix Trade” Sales Pitch for TPP, TTIP, and TISA is Wrong
Funny how foreign firms have failed to break into Japan for reasons having nothing to do with regulatory barriers, which calls the logic of “trade” deals like the TPP into question.
Read more...The TPP is a Multi-Dimensional Simultaneous Equation
How Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s remarks to the DIet about the TPP reveal a lot about the aims of this deal and its vulnerabilities.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: TPP – A Recipe for Financial Market Contagion
How the TPP would make financial firms that are “TIBACO” – that is, too interconnected, big, and complex to oversee – even more dangerous.
Read more...Full Translation of Japanese Government’s Summary of the TPP
Now you can read a translation of the Japanese government’s summary of the TPP.
Read more...Why Japan Did America’s Dirty Work in the TPP: USTR Gave Away the Agricultural Store
US caves to Japan on “beef.” But did they really cave?
Read more...TPP: It’s Not a Deal, It’s Not a Trade Deal, and It’s Not a Done Deal
We don’t have the TPP text, ISDS is just as bad as it’s always been, and deals like this have been beaten before.
Read more...Nomura Wins Sad-Sack Bank of the Week After Overpaying on Court Loss to FHFA, Having Bond Traders Indicted
So yesterday was a bad day if you were a Japanese bank with stubborn executives.
Read more...Deflation and Money
Deflation is a threat to the macroeconomy. Japan had suffered from deflation for more than a decade, and now, Europe is facing it. To combat deflation under the zero interest bound, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank have resorted to quantitative easing, or increasing the money supply. This column explores its effectiveness, through the application of novel methods to distinguish signals from noises.
Read more...Entering the Nuclear Age, Body by Body The Nagasaki Experience
I felt I had not adequately commemorated the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and am putting up this offering to make up for that lapse.
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