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On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...
Range reports AI-driven productivity gains could help combat America's rising debt crisis by boosting GDP, increasing tax ...
Japan’s government bond market is spinning out of control, and it’s dragging America into the mess. Volatility across Japanese government bonds has doubled in ...
In October, Ishiba gambled on a snap election in which the LDP and its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, lost its majority in the lower house and have since been forced to work with smaller ...
While Japan’s rice crisis is especially severe, it’s also part of a broader trend: Food prices around the world have been steadily climbing. From staples like grains and cooking oil to fresh produce ...
The White House is portraying Friday's launch of President Donald Trump's new tariffs regime as a testament to his ...
The Trump effect—embodied in both American policy and its global ideological footprint—has found fertile ground in Japan’s ...
In the Big, Bad, Budget Abomination, for example, there are two huge errors. The obvious one: they increased the deficit.
The AS global debt chartbook is my attempt at presenting an overview of global debt levels and an easy way to compare them ...
Trump critics tend to ignore good U.S. economic news and focus on the bad. But the economy isn't a punishing god that immediately strikes protectionists with a recession. The effects of his policies ...
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has faced a major setback following a significant electoral defeat on Monday in the upper house ...
Opinion
Threat of the US debt spiral
The country that once dominated the global economy is now grappling with a severe debt crisis. The United States, with a GDP of $28 trillion, is burdened by a debt of $36 trillion.