Showing posts with label Senkaku Islands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senkaku Islands. Show all posts
Monday, March 10, 2014

Japan’s Exports Plunge, Trade and Current Account Deficit Balloons

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The popularly held mercantilist view is that weak currency equals strong exports. Well the above chart is just an awesome unmasking o...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

How Hyperinflationary Policies Ushered in China’s Communist Rule

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Austrian economist and professor at Northwest University Richard M. Ebeling in a recent article articulates how the Chinese government’s h...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Senkaku Islands Dispute: The Risks from Political Brinkmanship

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The US, Japan and China appears to be playing a dangerous geopolitical brinkmanship game. From today’s headlines at the Inquirer.net ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Abenomics: Weak Yen Not Equal to Strong Exports

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In the view of the consensus, currency devaluation serves as a key policy to promote economic growth via implicit subsidies to the export i...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel: Senkaku Islands Dispute Edition

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“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” has been a popular quote attributed to English writer Samuel Johnson .  Well, in desirin...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Quote of the Day: A War over Insignificant Scrubby Rocks?

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Here is a link to the Google Maps Satellite view of the Senkaku Islands . Take a moment to contemplate how insignificant these scrubby roc...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

Will Territorial Claims Dispute Lead to World War III?

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All the bellicose posturing over territorial claims are posing as a risk the real thing: World War III. Historian Eric Margolis points ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Bank of Japan Goes Unlimited QE; Will Abenomics Be a Replay of the Takahasi-Model?

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As anticipated , the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has formalized her assimilation of the policies embraced by her contemporaries, the US Federal Res...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Paradox of the ASEAN, China, Japan and the US Free Trade Agreement Talks

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From Japan Times The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and its six regional partners, including Japan, China and India, declared T...
Saturday, October 06, 2012

Senkaku Dispute Controversy: News versus On the Ground Observation

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Writes analyst Sherwood Zhang of Matthews Asia Funds (bold highlights mine) It’s no wonder some pundits began calculating the potential...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Japan’s First Shale Gas Discovery

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I made my case that Shale gas will be the energy of the future which means this will become an international phenomenon (see here , here , ...