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The 2020 Tech Boom and Asia

By Ichiro Suzuki This is called “the death of value investing”. Tech stocks keep rising leaving the rest of the market behind, leaving...

Aftermath of U.S. Debt Downgrading

By Ichiro Suzuki On August 5, 2011, Standard & Poors downgraded its credit rating on U.S. Treasury securities to AA+ with a negative...

India’s Import Substitution

By Ichiro Suzuki In an attempt to promote local manufacturing industries, the Indian government has recently announced restrictions on...

The End of the East Asian Growth Model

By 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...

Tokyo as Asia’s financial hub

By 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...

Sino-Australian Relations

By Ichiro Suzuki Australia has been going through difficult times with China in recent years. The bilateral relationship saw its peak...

Shinzo Abe’s Third Arrow

By 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...

Imran 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...

The 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...

South 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...

A Tale of Three Bubbles

By 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...

Is 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...

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...

The 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...

Japan’s national debt

By Ichiro Suzuki Since the mid-1990s, the notoriously high accumulated debt of Japan’s public sector has been a source of a considerable...

Emerging Markets in the 2020s

By Ichiro Suzuki Several years ago already, developing countries’ fast pace of debt accumulation was drawing considerable concerns in...

Luckin Coffee

By 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...

Soft Lockdown in Japan

By Ichiro Suzuki For the first time ever in post-WWII Japan, emergency was declared amid coronavirus infections that looked on the verge...

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