Don’t cry for me Argentina, and Japan, too.
By Ichiro Suzuki Simon Kuznets, the 1971 winner of Nobel prize in economics once said “There are four kinds of countries: developed...
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- Nov 4, 2021
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Japan’s 2021 General Election
By Ichiro Suzuki In the October 29th general election, Japanese voters brought back the ruling coalition to govern the country...
- Oct 22, 2021
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- Oct 1, 2021
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- Sep 28, 2021
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- Sep 28, 2021
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China’s Japan, not Lehman, Moment
By Ichiro Suzuki This is what has been expected for a very long time. Too much debt in the overextended real estate sector would...
- Sep 24, 2021
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- Sep 23, 2021
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A Few thoughts on External Accounts and Growth Model
By Ichiro Suzuki In recent years, trade and current accounts have become poor indicators of a country’s economic success, as far as...
- Sep 15, 2021
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- Sep 15, 2021
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The World’s Largest Banks
By Ichiro Suzuki In the summer of 2007, a financial sector analyst from Shanghai proudly told me “Seven out of the ten largest banks on...
- Sep 7, 2021
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Yoshihide Suga’s Early Exit
By Ichiro Suzuki On September 3, Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan has announced that he is not running for the upcoming...
- Aug 25, 2021
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A Tale of Two Draconian Interest Rate Hikes
By Ichiro Suzuki Yasushi Mieno was a career central banker who served as governor of the Bank of Japan, for five years beginning...
- Aug 20, 2021
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- Aug 20, 2021
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The Nixon Shock
By Ichiro Suzuki The weekend of August 13-15 has marked the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s announcement that sent...
- Aug 10, 2021
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Tech Cultural Revolution
By Ichiro Suzuki China’s President Xi Jinping is clueless, as far as the financial markets’ workings are concerned. The tyrant thinks...
- Aug 3, 2021
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A Trip to Hawaii
By Ichiro Suzuki According to the Nikkei, Japan’s business daily, the iPhone Pro Max (512 gigabytes) costs 45% of average monthly...
- Jul 27, 2021
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Life of Bureaucrats at Kasumigaseki
By Ichiro Suzuki Working for the government has long been highly prestigious among able young men and women for decades. It has been...
- Jul 20, 2021
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Tanshin-funin (assignment away from home)
By Ichiro Suzuki In early June, two months into Japan’s baseball season, Justin Smoak, first baseman for the Yomiuri Giants, had...
- Jul 13, 2021
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- Jul 13, 2021
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Japan’s Stakeholder Capitalism
By Ichiro Suzuki For Corporate Japan, the final week of June is a time for public corporations’ annual general shareholder meetings....