Aug 19, 20204 minAftermath of U.S. Debt DowngradingBy Ichiro Suzuki On August 5, 2011, Standard & Poors downgraded its credit rating on U.S. Treasury securities to AA+ with a negative wa...
Aug 18, 20203 minIndia’s Import Substitution By Ichiro Suzuki In an attempt to promote local manufacturing industries, the Indian government has recently announced restrictions on c...
Aug 8, 20206 minThe End of the East Asian Growth ModelBy Ichiro Suzuki In the latter half of the 2010s, speculations grew on successor to China as the world’s workshop due to rising wages in...
Jul 31, 20204 minTokyo as Asia’s financial hubBy Ichiro Suzuki On July 1, the People’s Republic of China has imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong, in order to bring the t...
Jul 24, 20204 minSino-Australian RelationsBy Ichiro Suzuki Australia has been going through difficult times with China in recent years. The bilateral relationship saw its peak i...
Jul 15, 20203 minShinzo Abe’s Third ArrowBy Ichiro Suzuki Shinzo Abe came back to power at the end of 2012, after a 5 year hiatus that followed an unsuccessful 12 months stint...
Jul 7, 20204 minImran Khan’s Rage Against Beijing By Ichiro Suzuki Pakistan was a major non-NATO U.S. ally until the early years of the 21st century. In 2002 the United States allowed...
Jul 2, 20203 minThe Yale - NUS College By Ichiro Suzuki Since the beginning of the 21st century, there was a great boom for world-famous U.S. universities to have a new camp...
Jun 23, 20204 minSouth Africa-Free Investing By Ichiro Suzuki In the 1980s, when the international community was enraged at the inhumane minority regime that ruled the Republic of ...
Jun 23, 20205 minA Tale of Three BubblesBy Ichiro Suzuki The Nasdaq composite index has closed above 10,000 on June 10. The closing level of 10,020 was exactly twice as high as...
Jun 12, 20204 minHow Coronavirus Has Revealed Japan’s Tech Backwardness By Ichiro Suzuki That Japan is leading the world in cutting edge technology has been an illusion that continues to persist for some time...
Jun 3, 20205 minIs This Really Asia’s Century?By Ichiro Suzuki The 21st century belongs to Asia! This appears to be a consensus around the world, especially widely held in the invest...
May 28, 20204 minJapan’s National Debt II By Ichiro Suzuki In the highly volatile financial markets so far into 2020, there were a few movements that might show signs of changes i...
May 19, 20204 min Casino Projects in Japan By Ichiro Suzuki Las Vegas Sands founder and CEO Sheldon Adelson announced earlier this month that he is pulling out of bidding for an in...
May 12, 20206 minThe End of Savings Glut?By Ichiro Suzuki One of the distinct developments in the global economy in the early years of the 21st century was a surge in savings amo...
May 6, 20203 minJapan’s national debtBy Ichiro Suzuki Since the mid-1990s, the notoriously high accumulated debt of Japan’s public sector has been a source of a considerable...
Apr 28, 20204 minEmerging Markets in the 2020sBy Ichiro Suzuki Several years ago already, developing countries’ fast pace of debt accumulation was drawing considerable concerns in th...
Apr 24, 20204 minLuckin CoffeeBy Ichiro Suzuki This was not an April Fool’s Day joke. On April 2, the shares of Nasdaq-listed Luckin Coffee (LK), dubbed as China’s St...
Apr 14, 20204 minSoft Lockdown in JapanBy Ichiro Suzuki For the first time ever in post-WWII Japan, emergency was declared amid coronavirus infections that looked on the verge ...
Apr 10, 20202 min出口下滑外資流出 加劇中國經濟動盪By Grace Wang, Ph.D 隨著中共病毒在全球蔓延，全球資本市場進入危機避險模式，投資者不計代價拋售股票、大宗商品等各種投資產品，紛紛增持美元，資金大規模回流美國。 國際金融協會（IIF）的數據顯示，疫情爆發後，從今年1月21日至3月1日，約925億美元的證券投...
