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The Bank of Japan’s First Interest Rate Hike in 17 Years
Ichiro Suzuki On March 19, the Bank of Japan has raised its interest rate paid to commercial banks’ deposits with the central bank for...
Mar 31, 20244 min read


The Next Conundrum?
Ichiro Suzuki The economy appears to be dying a slow death. It must be too much to say this on the Chinese economy. This statement,...
Mar 20, 20245 min read


Toyota’s Future
Ichiro Suzuki The global car industry is on a new trend since late 2023. Battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs), or EVs as casually...
Mar 11, 20245 min read


Corporate Japan’s Old Guards
Ichiro Suzuki In early February, heads of corporations based in the Kansai area (Osaka, Kyoto and the vicinity) gathered for a conference...
Mar 2, 20244 min read


Would China Export a Real Estate Bust?
Ichiro Suzuki The world’s second largest economy is grappling with unraveling of its real estate market. It has escaped a spectacular...
Feb 21, 20244 min read


The Nikkei Index Beyond 38,915
Ichiro Suzuki The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Nikkei index has been on a rising trend since the last decade. The index closed January at...
Feb 1, 20245 min read


NISA
Ichiro Suzuki The NISA or the Nippon Individual Savings Account is a tax-free investment scheme created by the Japanese government in...
Jan 25, 20244 min read


The Way We Were
Ichiro Suzuki Moody’s has recently cut China’s outlook to ‘negative’. The move is often considered as a harbinger to a downgrade unless...
Jan 12, 20244 min read


The World’s Largest Corporations
By Ichiro Suzuki Well over the last 100 years, the list of the world’s largest corporations has shown who’s hot and who’s not from one...
Jan 10, 20245 min read


Foreign Capital’s Invasion
Ichiro Suzuki China’s President Xi Jinping recently attended the G-20 meetings. In San Francisco, Mr. Xi dined with American business...
Dec 13, 20234 min read


Conundrum in Reverse
Ichiro Suzuki Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan shook his head in early summer of 2003, looking at a steady fall in...
Nov 28, 20235 min read


The Prime Minister’s Salary
Ichiro Suzuki Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has recently drafted a bill that raises salaries for public workers employed by...
Nov 22, 20234 min read


Costs of Fudging Statistics
Ichiro Suzuki China’s economic statistics can’t be taken at face value. This has been well understood among economists and investors...
Nov 4, 20233 min read


Emerging Markets a Decade and a Half After the Frenzy
Ichiro Suzuki Absolutely nothing has been delivered since emerging markets reached their apex at the end of October 2007. Sixteen years...
Oct 21, 20234 min read


Who Wants to Buy the Yen?
Ichiro Suzuki The Japanese yen is once again flirting at 150 to the U.S. dollar, a year after a massive solo intervention in the...
Oct 10, 20235 min read


Safety Mania
Ichiro Suzuki The Japanese government has recently announced that dedicated lanes for driverless cars be laid out in the existing...
Sep 22, 20233 min read


Water from Fukushima
Ichiro Suzuki On August 24, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) started discharging treated water, which has been stored in tanks,...
Sep 12, 20234 min read


A Tale of Two Post-Bubble Capital Flows
Ichiro Suzuki China’s renminbi is under pressure recently. Beijing is reportedly making great efforts to stem the currency’s decline...
Aug 31, 20233 min read


Japanification of China
Ichiro Suzuki By the summer of 2023, it has become almost public knowledge that China’s economy is in trouble, mired in a ‘balance sheet...
Aug 12, 20234 min read


Balance Sheet Recession
Ichiro Suzuki Nomura Research Institute economist Richard Koo is forever proud of having coined a word ‘balance sheet recession’ to...
Aug 12, 20233 min read
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