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Japan’s Minimum Wage Miracle
Lifting Wages of 20 Million, But Without The Job Losses Business Lobbies Predicted
Korea Has Surpassed Japan in Per Capita GDP
And Its Lead Is Growing
Ishiba “Gives Away The Store” to Trump
Pact Permits Trump To Impose New Tariffs if Japan Declines Any Of His Investment Schemes
How Trump's Victory Will Impact Japan
Trade Policies and Inflation Will Hit Japan Hard
Don’t Heed Panic-Mongers On Japanese Interest Rates Or Yen
As Takaichi Opens Fiscal Faucets, JGB Rates Move Up And Yen Ratchets Down
Yen Going to ¥170/$?
If So, Is That A Change in Fundamentals or Speculative Over-Reach?
IMF: Japan Could Double Growth by Curing Rigidity in Labor and Capital Markets
Takaichi Misses 21st Century Industrial Policy, Part II
The Weak Yen Reflects Weak Japan
PPP vs. Market Value For The Yen, Part II
The “Mussolini Corporatism” Behind Trump’s Demand For $800 Billion From Japan and Korea
Trump Wants Cash To Buy Shares in Key US Companies and Dictate To Them
In Rare 6-3 Vote, BOJ Delays Interest Rate Hike Again
BOJ Sees Higher Prices and Lower Growth Due to Iran War
The Houthis, A Disappointing Wage Report, and the Tumbling Yen
Market Sees Latest Wage Report Delaying BOJ Rate Hike
The Myth of Japan’s Missing Millionaires? Part 1
Both Too Few And Too Many Millionaires Hurt Growth
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