EconWatch.com > June 04, 2011
First Read - Obama: Economy faces 'strong headwinds'
[Newsvine - First Read - Articles] Obama's visit to a Chrysler factory in this important battleground state comes on a day the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the nation's unemployment rate ticked up to 9.1 percent in May, with the economy adding a lower-than-expected 54,000 jobs. The president made no mention of the job figures in his 20-minute speech, even as he acknowledged that despite having made great strides, the economy still faced "strong headwinds" from high gas prices to economic disruptions following tragedy in japan to instability in the Middle East that creates uncertainty.
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May 24, 2011
Japan economy view unchanged in May (Reuters) | SHMTV News
[SHMTV News] The government’s latest assessment is largely in line with the Bank of Japan, which also maintained its view on the economy last week, citing strong downward pressure, mainly on output, due to the impact of the earthquake, while keeping its ultra-easy monetary policy on hold.
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Posted at 07:05 PM
May 06, 2011
Report: Japan quake won't derail Hawaii economy | The Associated ...
[Examiner Entertainment RSS] "Initially, there was significant fear from everybody from the governor to the Legislature to people in the tourism industry," said Carl Bonham, executive director of the UH Economic Research Organization, which began studying the impact on Hawaii soon after the March 11 earthquake. "People have begun to already come to the idea we're not facing complete collapse of tourism because of Japan."
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Posted at 02:35 PM
May 03, 2011
Japan's Economy Struggles For Air | afoe | A Fistful of Euros ...
[A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros] Further down the road only lie major tax increases (which will surely slow the domestic economy even further) or (ultimately)debt restructuring, since surely, even in the Japan case, the sky is not the limit for sovereign debt, and while any Japan sovereign restructuring would have little external impact given that the Japanese are the main holders of their own debt, Japan’s banks (who hold the lion’s share) would hardly escape unscathed. But beyond immediate government debt-woe issues, the big question is the extent to which lasting damage is being done to demand for Japanese home-grown products, and whether or not this will make it more rather than less difficult to sustain in the longer term the external surplus the country so badly needs to underpin its fiscal survival.
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Posted at 07:09 PM
April 05, 2011
Monetary policy: Whose economy is this? | The Economist
[Free exchange] I think it's right to read the backlash to loose policy, particularly among the older-constituency Republican party, as a sign of the growing divide between the demands of the working and the non-working portions of the American population. The Fed's task will grow ever more difficult as more Americans age into the latter group, and that is a matter of grave concern for those in the former, as Japan's working-age population can certainly attest.
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Posted at 07:07 PM
March 29, 2011
RealClearPolitics - The Gathering Storm: Economy Remains too ...
[RealClearPolitics - Homepage] After adding 175,000 jobs in February, economists expect the Labor Department will report on Friday that the economy added 188,000 jobs in March. However, events in Japan, Libya and the wider Middle East, and the European sovereign debt crisis threaten to reverse these gains and thrust the economy into a second recession.
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Posted at 07:06 PM
March 23, 2011
Libya, Japan crises could rock the economy - Ben White - POLITICO.com
[POLITICO.com: Politics] “But that’s a combination of a relief rally based on better news out of Japan and the fact that QE2 is continuing,” Rickards said, referring to the Fed Reserve’s latest program of “quantitative easing”
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Posted at 07:06 PM
March 15, 2011
Gauging Disaster's Toll on an Economy - NYTimes.com
[Economix] A 2002 paper by Mark Skidmore of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Hideki Toya of Nagoya City University in Japan found that nations with higher frequencies of climatic disasters also enjoyed higher rates of growth, all else equal.
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March 12, 2011
Japan quake unlikely to cause global shock | Investing | Financial ...
[Financial Post - Top Stories] “Historically natural disasters rarely effect the global economy and rarely actually hurt equity markets ,” Thomas Lee, senior U.S. equity strategist at JPMorgan Chase, told the Financial Post on Friday. “The times that they do is when the region that’s hit is generally a very important provider of a base metal or a core commodity….
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Posted at 05:05 PM
February 15, 2011
China overtakes Japan as world's second-biggest economy | EUTimes.net
[The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News] Exports were flooding out and China was given the title of "the world's factory". Taking advantage of its huge population, China began to move up in the rankings of the world's top economies.
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October 30, 2010
The Fed's Quantitative Easing and the Economy | The Heritage ...
[Reports - The Heritage Foundation] Japan first used quantitative easing aggressively in the early 2000s to fight deflation after the collapse of a massive asset price bubble.[4] Facing renewed signs of a flagging economy, Japan announced in early October that it was resuming a policy of quantitative easing with an initial $60 billion installment. The European Central Bank (ECB) has thus far resisted a return to quantitative easing per se, but it is aggressively pursuing a policy of purchasing sovereign debt and private debt as part of Europe’s efforts to preserve the euro and to manage the sovereign debt crisis that began in Greece in early 2010.
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October 19, 2010
Japan downgrades view of economy | www.bullfax.com
[Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis] Japan downgraded its monthly economic assessment on Tuesday for the first time in 20 months, citing the rapid rise of the yen and a slowdown of exports and production.The Japanese currency has in recent weeks traded at 15-year highs, hammering the competitiveness of the crucial export sector, despite a yen-selling intervention by Japan's central bank last month.Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet Office in its October report said that "the economic movements appear to be pausing recently," a turnaround from last month when it said the economy "continues picking up".
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Posted at 07:06 PM
August 17, 2010
China Surpasses Japan as World's Number Two Economy | Sex+Metropolis
[Sex+Metropolis] China’s growth comes both from huge state investment in infrastructure and heavy industry and from private sector expansion in light industry instead of just exports, whose role in the economy appears to have been significantly overestimated. The smaller but highly concentrated public sector, dominated by 159 large SOEs, provided key inputs from utilities, heavy industries, and energy resources that facilitated private sector growth and drove investment, the foundation of national growth.
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Posted at 07:07 PM
China's economy takes over Japan's | US Post Today.
[US Post Today.] US Post Today. - China's economy takes over Japan's.
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July 31, 2010
China Overtakes Japan as World's Second-Largest Economy - DailyFinance
[DailyFinance] China is now the world's second-largest economy, having overtaken Japan, a senior Chinese official said.
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Posted at 05:07 PM
July 30, 2010
NewsDaily: China overtakes Japan as No.2 economy: FX chief
[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] In one important respect, however, China is still a shrinking violet: anxious to shield itself from the rough-and-tumble of global markets, it does not permit its currency to be freely exchanged except for purposes of trade and foreign direct investment.
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Posted at 02:37 PM
December 25, 2009
Japan Economy
[Armoks News] Deflation tightened its hold on Japan in November and the unemployment rate rose for the first time in four months, as the world's second-biggest economy struggles to stage a convincing comeback. The unemployment rate climbed to 5.2 percent, reversing an improvement to 5.1 percent in October, the government said Friday.
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Posted at 02:37 PM
October 30, 2009
Halloween & the Japanese economy | Japan Probe
[Japan Probe] Halloween easily fits in with Japan because Japan already has a ghostly tradition and a belief of spirits returning with is the core of the original Halloween or Samhain as it was known in Pagan-Celtic Ireland. Japanese elements have long been a part of Halloween in America providing some of the most favorite costumes like ninja, anime characters, samurai, godzilla, etc…
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Posted at 02:35 PM
February 14, 2009
Global Economy Matters: Staring into the Abyss
[Global Economy Matters] well because, absent a solid growth in exports, Japanese companies have to rely on the domestic market for growth (at least to some extent) and this is quite literally impossible with Japan's demographic profile.
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