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Five Scintilating Scenarios for the Year of the Snake

Snakes symbolise regeneration and transformation

By Peter Tasker | January 5, 2025
Articles Business Culture Fiction Finance Politics

The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Masa Son

Indian telecom billionaire Sunal Mittal declared that “the man has balls of steel”

By Peter Tasker | November 22, 2024
Business Finance Reviews

How the Bank of Japan Can Turn Disaster into Triumph

The BoJ has taken on the appearance of an enormous and dangerous Moby Dick.

By Peter Tasker | March 7, 2024
Finance Reflections

Five and a Half Super Scenarios for the Year of the Dragon

Japan is now a more strategically important player than ever before in the post-war era

By Peter Tasker | January 6, 2024
Articles Finance Politics

Why China Needs A Dose of Abenomics

The Showa depression of the early 1930s led to the era of “government by assassination”

By Peter Tasker | December 21, 2023
Articles Finance

Learning to Love Inflation: the Japanese Experiment

Higher immigration is a certainty, given that opinion surveys show a large majority of the public accepting the case.

By Peter Tasker | July 28, 2023
Business Finance

Buffett-san Validates the Abe Reforms

Could it be that Buffett sees a more cosmopolitan Japan filling a crucial new role?

By Peter Tasker | May 20, 2023
Articles Business Finance

The Kuroda era – and what comes next

One thing is for sure – unlike most of his predecessors, he will be remembered.

By Peter Tasker | April 5, 2023
Finance

Funny Money: Edward Chancellor’s “The Price of Time”

“We have come to live in a controlled environment, with its fake money, fake interest rates, fake economy, fake jobs, and fake politicians…”

By Peter Tasker | March 25, 2023
Finance Reviews

Five + 1 Surprising Scenarios for the Year of the Rabbit

2022 was definitely a “Roubini year”, but 2023 could well be a “Pinker year”

By Peter Tasker | January 3, 2023
Articles Finance Politics

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