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US ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 5, 2021
A new golden age for Japanese entrepreneurs
No matter how small the startup, because of COVID-19, it can finally hire people, build teams, invest in what always yields the highest returns for any new venture — human capital.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 3, 2021
Container crunch upends global food trade while ships queue at U.S. ports
Food is piling up in all the wrong places, thanks to carriers hauling empty shipping containers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2021
COVID-19 is making rich countries poorer
The cumulative COVID-19 deaths per million people were substantially higher in high-income than in middle-income and low-income countries, even when excluding China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2021
Now they tell us: Austerity is out in a low-interest rate world
It is no coincidence that there have been waves of populism across the Western world in the wake of the global financial crisis — and the imposition of the austerity orthodoxy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2021
Japan should restart Go To Travel campaign in March, senior LDP official says
The remarks by Hiroshige Seko, Upper House secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, come even after a study last month indicated the campaign may have spread the coronavirus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Jan 29, 2021
As COVID-19 compounds Okinawa's tourism woes, industry looks for a way out
An emergency system through which workers are temporarily seconded to companies so that they can return to their jobs once the economy is back on its feet has been proposed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2021
North Korea’s new economic plan looks a lot like the old one
International sanctions and coronavirus lockdowns have resulted in an unprecedented level of isolation that is quickly becoming an existential issue for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 27, 2021
Top global traders work to ease seafarer crisis due to coronavirus
Shipping industry officials say many sailors are at breaking point, and many have been at sea for longer than an 11-month limit laid out in a maritime labor convention.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Jan 25, 2021
Pandemic-era central banking is creating bubbles everywhere
In 2020, cheap money, gushing in from the world's major central banks, inflated assets and reshaped how we save, invest and spend.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jan 25, 2021
As pandemic prolongs easing, BOJ warms to wider band for yield target
Widening the band, or clarifying the BOJ's intention to let market forces drive yield moves more, would help bring life back to a market numbed by years of heavy-handed intervention.

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