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On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...
In the Big, Bad, Budget Abomination, for example, there are two huge errors. The obvious one: they increased the deficit.
Aside from the question of growth, it remains unclear whether policymakers can reorient the country’s future trajectory ...
Opinion

Threat of the US debt spiral

The country that once dominated the global economy is now grappling with a severe debt crisis. The United States, with a GDP of $28 trillion, is burdened by a debt of $36 trillion.
Japan’s government bond market is spinning out of control, and it’s dragging America into the mess. Volatility across Japanese government bonds has doubled in ...
Yields on 10-year Japanese government debt have hit their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis as markets begin to price in the risk of populist campaign pledges and political uncertainty ...
Summary The Philippines, with its abundant natural resources and vibrant cultural legacy, should by all indicators be a ...
The AS global debt chartbook is my attempt at presenting an overview of global debt levels and an easy way to compare them ...
Japan’s bond market is falling apart in real time. The 30-year Japanese bond yield jumped to 3.20%, a fresh record.
Upper House election approaches, the LDP leans on crisis rhetoric while the opposition fails to offer a credible plan to fund a widely supported tax cut.
Japan is in political flux after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition lost its upper house majority for the first ...
Economist Rob Shapiro warns that Trump’s policies and threats to the Fed could push the U.S. into a severe recession.