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- Economic Parallels Between U.S. and Japan
- Edward Harrison submits: In the video below, Marshall Auerback gives a even-handed analysis of the parallels between the US and Japan on Fox Business with Brian Sullivan. Demographic trends, GDP trends and deleveraging trends are all similar. But, Marshall goes further by pointing to the misallocation of fiscal...
- External links 2009-11-13
- Japan's Cautionary Tale: Stimulus Without Reform Leads to Policy Cul de Sac
- Edward Harrison submits: If one wants to see what happens when you use stimulus to help keep zombie companies alive and to resist reform efforts, look no further than Japan. For twenty years now, Japan has been dealing with the consequences of a burst asset bubble in shares...
- External links 2009-11-03
- Japan: The Problem Is Taxes
- Edward Harrison submits: By Marshall Auerback When I read Ed’s recent piece “Japan: stimulus without reform leads to a policy cul de sac,” I couldn’t help but think he is wrong about Japan. by Edward Harrison
- External links 2009-11-03
- On the New Japan, Domestic Consumption, and the Neo-Liberal Insanity
- Edward Harrison submits: By Marshall Auerback Several notable economists prognosticated on what Japan should do to get out of their malaise in the 1990s but none of them understood the problem or the options available to the sovereign government. They all gave poor advice. The way Japan recovered after that...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Japan Defends Dollar?s Status, China Tears It Down
- Edward Harrison submits: In the lead-up to next week’s G8 summit, the Chinese have been making yet more noises about setting up a new monetary system without the dollar as its anchor and leading reserve currency. The Chinese, who have maintained a export orientation which has made them the...
- External links 2009-07-05
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- Toyota: World's Largest Automaker to Cut Global Capacity
- Edward Harrison submits: Toyota TM, now the world’s largest automaker, has said it would halt production at a plant in Aichi prefecture in Japan, reducing total output by a massive 220,000 cars. This should be seen as a recognition of the over-capacity tat exists in the auto sector despite...
- External links 2009-08-27
- China: Reflation Play Spells Trouble for Rest of World
- Edward Harrison submits: By Marshall Auerback Marshall Auerback here. You saw Ed’s last post on China, quoting from Peter Tasker, one of the top analysts in Japan when I lived there. I take Peter’s insights very seriously. His analysis implies something a lot more in regards to currencies, trade and...
- External links 2009-11-03
- Hong Kong's Scathing Criticism of U.S. Monetary Policy
- Edward Harrison submits: Hong Kong’s leader Donald Tsang has come out with a scathing criticism of U.S. monetary policy, comparing it to Japan’s which he believes contributed to 1997’s Asian crisis. This is the most direct and strident criticism of the U.S. Federal reserve’s monetary policy from a major international...
- External links 2009-11-15
- Currencies Pegged to Dollar Under Pressure to Drop Peg
- Edward Harrison submits: There is an enormous dichotomy in foreign exchange markets that has wide-ranging implications for the global economy. In Europe, most currencies float freely against the U.S. dollar. In Asia and the Mideast, most do not. What this has meant in practice is two things....
- External links 2009-10-13
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