Beware The Psycho
Back in 2002 Ben Bernanke recommended the deployment of “helicopter money” – meaning a broad-based tax cut financed by the central bank – as the best cure for deflation.
Enter the Ninja – Kuroda’s Negative Therapy
Remarkably even Zimbabwe, once the poster-child for hyperinflation, is now in deflation
Taiwan’s Coming Tilt to Japan
The abduction from Hong Kong of bookshop staff involved in publishing embarrassing material about China’s leaders will not help
R.I.P. Bowie: “Like some cat from Japan…”
David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.
Five Market Mysteries for the Year of the Monkey
What havoc might result if the Chinese authorities were to stage a large-scale currency depreciation?
New Terayama / Moriyama Project – Now on Sale!
View Moriyama’s haunting black-and-white images, let your gaze rest on the unusual page lay-out and stroke the cover with your fingertips
Banknote Politics: It’s All About the Yukichis
On his return he was targeted for assassination by anti-foreigner extremists
Dead People Turn Into Words
After a hundred years you’ll understand what I mean. Come back in a hundred years’ time.
Grossly Deceptive Parameters
The UK and France added a few extra percent to their GDPs by including drug-dealing, prostitution and smuggling.
Electric Kabuki
The first mention of curry in Japan was by the great Yukichi Fukuzawa, who we see every day staring out at us from 10,000 yen notes.