Inflation: The Japanese Exception
Inflation is the “monetary expression of distributional conflict”
Inflation is the “monetary expression of distributional conflict”
Japanese products and services have become extraordinarily cheap relative to the foreign equivalents, as have wages, rents and asset prices.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is starting to sound like an actual communist
Other modern bubbles were as the popping of children’s balloons to the crash of the Hindenburg airship
As Kay and King write, “narratives change and evolve over time and need to be constantly challenged.”
140 years later, comedian Beat Takeshi quipped that “it’s not scary to cross on a red light if everyone does it together.”
It would end up owning enough of the Japanese economy to gladden the heart of Karl Marx
Abe’s project of resurrecting Japan as a confident, independent geopolitical player would never succeed without economic revival
The last few weeks have seen more civil disorder in the United States and the UK than Japan experienced in two “lost decades.”
What went missing after the initial phase of Abenomics was the second arrow, fiscal stimulus.