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GLOBAL ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2021
Can economics keep up with technology and a changing world?
The average layperson cannot easily tell the difference between good and bad economics, owing not least to the discipline's broad range of content and methodologies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2021
Fraying relations with China are about to hit the Australian economy
China's punitive trade actions have targeted commodities such as coal, barley and lobsters, but left iron ore untouched — for now.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2021
U.S. Fed decries wealth gap it helps perpetuate
All things being equal, the Fed is actively making the wealth gap more pronounced with its ultraeasy monetary policy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2021
The pandemic’s impact on China’s economic prospects
Policy changes might not be enough. Instead, China's economic recovery may well depend on how the fight against COVID-19 unfolds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 26, 2021
Delta deepens global supply-chain challenges, disrupting shipping and hiking prices
Manufacturers reeling from shortages of key components and higher raw material and energy costs are also being forced into bidding wars to get space on cargo vessels.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2021
U.S. and China are not destined for a military conflict
Throughout history, when a rising power has challenged a ruling one, such as the case with China and the U.S., war has often been the result. But there are also notable exceptions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2021
Singapore's social divisions aren't so clear cut
COVID-19 didn't create the city's economic and social anxieties, but it brought them to the surface.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 16, 2021
Will central bank digital currencies doom dollar dominance?
CBDCs are coming, but they won't change the face of international payments and they won't dethrone the dollar.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 16, 2021
China’s recovery weakens as delta outbreak adds new risks
China's slowdown has added to signs that the global recovery is faltering.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2021
Making supply chains more resilient
Some argue that rich-country governments' efforts to strengthen domestic and regional production networks reflect a new form of economic nationalism driven by fear of China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2021
Once largely free of COVID-19, Asian economies are now upended by delta
While consumers are bearing the brunt, supply chains are being disrupted as factories shut down in a bid to stop the spread of the virus.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2021
Is capitalism just a phase? China struggles with the math
Communist ideology declares that capitalism is just a stage in human society, and that party leaders are the architects of the future there to look beyond this phase.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021
A big step forward for global tax justice
Europe must demonstrate that multilateral action can deliver for all if every country invests in it. And the new global tax agreement does just that.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021
China’s unavoidable financial rise
Many economists in the West did not see China's massive growth coming, and its influence is now becoming impossible to ignore.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2021
The chip-shortage recovery will be rocky, as Apple can attest
Even with some supplies getting closer to normal, firms still lack the components needed to complete their complex tech devices.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2021
How climate change can bring Latin America back
For Latin America, this quickening green transition could attract hundreds of billions in investment, help spur an economic recovery and let nations leapfrog technologically.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2021
Beijing's big tech crackdown means a bad summer for investors everywhere
Beijing's crackdown over the weekend on for-profit school tutoring is just one part of a much wider reshape of the tech economy in China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2021
The changing map of economics
The global economy and capitalism are at a crossroads, with the COVID-19 being the primary impetus for this view, followed by climate change, digital technology and changing labor markets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2021
Even as Beijing's grip tightens, Hong Kong maintains status as finance hub
More than a year after the crackdown began, signs of an investor exodus are hard to find.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
MUFG fires worker over ¥2 billion theft from clients’ safe deposit boxes
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is investigating the incident and consulting with the police.
China reinstates visa-free travel for Japanese nationals
Beijing Daxing International Airport
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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