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Bank of Japan holds off easing

Source: Economic Times, Nov 20 2012, 4:59am CST

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan held off launching fresh easing measures on Tuesday, despite growing calls for further stimulus to spur the economy and as it warned of a "high degree of uncertainty". The decision came days after the frontrunner to become Japan' ...

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Velocity of Money and the Crack-Up Boom

Source: Safehaven  |   May 19 2013, 6:16pm CDT

Based on both recent history and mainstream economic theory the past few years should not have been possible. When you cut interest rates to near-zero, run deficits of 10% of GDP and buy up every government bond in sight ...

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Central banks driving yields

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 19 2013, 4:02pm CDT

NEW YORK: With the world’s biggest central banks driving yields on safe assets to near zero, some investors are tossing caution to the wind and rushing to buy illiquid and previously overlooked bonds sold by countries with no capital ...

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Abe's Master Plan

Source: The Business Insider  |   May 19 2013, 3:30pm CDT

WHEN Shinzo Abe resigned after just a year as prime minister, in September 2007, he was derided by voters, broken by chronic illness, and dogged by the ineptitude that has been the bane of so many recent Japanes ...

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Japan increases economic footprint in SADC

Source: Sunday Standard  |   May 19 2013, 2:39pm CDT

Japan is steadily using her already considerable economic muscle to be counted among a club of big economies competing for AfricaÂs moment of economic growth. In particular, Japan is developing more and more interest in the S ...

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Development bank needs to do more

Source: Bangkok Post  |   May 19 2013, 2:35pm CDT

For more than eight years, former Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Haruhiko Kuroda spoke of the Japanese-led multilateral development bank's commitment to fighting poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. How ironic it ...

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Banks' dollar borrowing eyed

Source: Bangkok Post  |   May 19 2013, 2:16pm CDT

The Finance Ministry has blamed local commercial banks' offshore borrowing at low interest rates to be lent locally as a factor accelerating the baht's strength. The baht has triggered lots of finger pointing, most recently at local ...

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5 hours ago

Why Japan Is Bad For The World

Source: Forbes  |   May 19 2013, 1:32pm CDT

Japan continues to be the world’s biggest financial story. The consensus seems to be that the country’s extraordinary economic measures are good for both itself and the world. I’ve detailed previously how Japan’s efforts are likely to have terrible domes ...

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Japan Discovers QE Has Risks

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 19 2013, 12:01pm CDT

Well, that was fast. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive pro-inflation policy is only a few months old and a fight has erupted over its early effects. And this while there is no economy-wide inflation.On Wednesday, the N ...

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US shale gas alters Japan's energy plans - The Japan Times

Source: PBS: Blueprint America  |   May 19 2013, 10:34am CDT

Japan has made progress in its attempts to curtail soaring fuel costs since the 2011 Fukushima disaster and Washington on Friday gave it the green light to import cheap liquefied natural gas. Since Japan is poor in natural resources, it ...

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