2011-04-13 01:36
It looks like the IMF (or everybody else except me?) underestimates the severity of damage to Japan's economy due to the earthquake and its aftermath. It's appropriate that the IMF has downg… Read More
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2011-04-07 12:19
We've just found another victim. His name is Portugal. Portugal gave up its own efforts to solve the financial chaos and asked the EU for help. Portugal is the third country following Greece… Read More
2011-04-06 06:05
One thing that I think curious is overreaction on radiation issues across the US, which dropped two nuclear bombs in Japan. They claim that nuclear bombs helped hasten the end of war so that… Read More
2011-04-05 02:17
Fukushima disaster has shown no sings of abating so far. Worse, radioactive water is leaking into the sea from the nuclear plants.Tokyo Electric Power Co. or TEPCO, which operates Fukushima… Read More
2011-03-30 04:29
I have had a tough time for a while. It's not the earthquake per se, though it has a major impact upon everything around me. I was or have been sick, which has nothing to do with the quake… Read More
2011-03-09 05:08
An interesting statistics has just been released by the JEITA(Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association), whose objective is, according to them, "to promote the he… Read More
2011-03-03 02:36
It would be very hard to see how New Zealand's economy goes after the terrible earthquake that hit the country last month. At least for now, nearly 150 people died, and 200 people are still… Read More
2011-02-24 05:23
(This post is a little bit dated now, because I made a first draft last week. But anyway I'll post it below.)I've got a small doubt in two articles (Washington Post, Bloomberg) that I found… Read More
2011-02-17 06:21
US foreign policy after the former Bush administration's blunder looks like increasingly tough for anybody to have a say in a critical moment like the current turmoil in the Middle East. Hav… Read More
2011-02-14 07:57
Japan's real GDP contracted 1.1% in the last quarter on an annualized basis, according to Cabinet Office.Fine. It isn't supposed to be fine, for God's sake. Contraction is a problem. But Jap… Read More
2011-02-13 05:34
This isn't the first time for a South American country to charge an Asian counterpart with its cheap currency. In fact, as my previous post shows, Brazil, one of the significant emerging pow… Read More
2011-02-07 00:35
As several of my recent posts show, inflation is sneaking upon a daily life around the globe, which has so far provoked riots and protests over the Middle East. This is and should be surpris… Read More
2011-02-04 11:39
This blog is meant to be written for topics related to, mainly, economics, not politics. Politics is not my first choice, but the crisis unfolding in Egypt gave me a food of thought on the p… Read More
2011-02-02 08:09
Inflation is, among others, conceived to be the biggest risk facing the current economy around the world. Or policymakers think so. Egypt is not an exception. Protesters are ostensibly deman… Read More
2011-01-27 08:50
The UK is diving into stagflation - Is that so?The UK's GDP unexpectedly shrank 0.5% in the last quarter, the first-time decline in five quarters since the Lehman crisis in the third quarter… Read More
2011-01-22 05:11
It looks like Asia (Asia ex-Japan, of course) has been heading into a cycle of rate hike these days. The Bank of Korea, South Korea's central bank, raised its policy interest rate last week… Read More
2011-01-20 07:34
The world has recently seen rising prices which are not only a concern for economic stability but also causing deadly riots in North Africa, where Tunisia's Ben Ali was forced into exile aft… Read More
2011-01-13 00:59
The news that Japan is going to buy eurozone bonds has so far had little to solve the problems facing the eurozone countries, though the euro gained a little bit and the eurozone peripheral… Read More
2011-01-11 07:37
It looks like Brazil is gaining an expertise of creating new rhetoric. According to a BBC report, Brazil's Finance minister Guido Mantega stepped up its warning on currency manipulation, say… Read More
2011-01-09 07:01
Brazil is set to impose another measure to curb the appreciation of its currency real against the dollar, thus preventing speculative money from flooding into the economy. According to a Blo… Read More
2011-01-07 01:31
According to the latest report of the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN's organ, food prices jumped to the all-time high in December last year, beating the previous high in June 2008 tha… Read More
2011-01-05 00:23
What attracts eyes in the recent Treasury securities buyers is Canada's emergence as one of the major holders of the Treasury securities. In fact, Canada's holdings have increased by a facto… Read More
2010-12-30 00:00
A little while ago, a rumor was frequently heard around in the markets that China, the world largest holder of foreign reserves, is going to diversify its portfolio away from the US dollar a… Read More
2010-12-28 08:40
A bit of good news is coming from, unexpectedly, Japan, which predicts that the next quarter, namely January to March, sees a stronger growth in the world, especially Asia. Unfortunately, it… Read More
2010-12-20 04:21
The latest result in Japan's quarterly Tankan survey, which captures business sentiment, is less bleak than anticipated, but at least not encouraging in the sense that the sentiment index fo… Read More
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