Economic Bubble

Fujisato is a small town (population 3,214) in Akita Prefecture. Mountains enclose it. In winter, snow fairly buries it. Nearly half its population (47 percent) is elderly. In 2006 two elementary school children were murdered there. Generally speaking, when …

(Bloomberg) -- Tokyo is about to get another mound of capitalism. Mori Building Co. is spending 580 billion yen ($5.4 billion) on a new, 20-acre hub of commerce in the citys core. Similar in size to New Yorks Rockefeller Center, the complex will have shops, …

President Trump made some key concessions on his tariffs in the past week: He admitted companies pay the cost of the tariffs and those costs can be passed on to consumers. On Tuesday, Trump made a third concession. I am doing this whether its good or bad for…

Up to 3.41 million people, accounting for about 5 percent of Japan's total labor force, are estimated to be working as freelancers, according to a recent survey conducted by the government. Analysts expect the number of freelancers to grow amid the governmen…

Up to 3.41 million people, accounting for about 5 percent of Japan’s total labor force, are estimated to be working as freelancers, according to a recent survey conducted by the government. Analysts expect the number of freelancers to grow amid the governmen…

OPINION: We are a decade into a global economic experiment that is certain to fail. This will come as a surprise to the likes of Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr, who recently told Jack Tame: "economic growth will be picking up." He's wrong. When the wh…

I am getting asked a lot about the coming ‘recession’. Here is the definition from Wikipedia: In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction when there is a general decline in economic activity. Recessions generally occur when there is a wi…

The inverted yield curve looks set to be a global phenomenon, with major Asian debt markets primed to mirror the moves in Treasuries as fears grow that the world economy is teetering on the brink of a recession. Yields in some Asian markets are tracking the s…

The inverted yield curve looks set to be a global phenomenon, with major Asian debt markets primed to mirror the moves in Treasuries as fears grow that the world economy is teetering on the brink of a recession. Yields in Singapore, Australia and Japan are t…

The inverted yield curve looks set to be a global phenomenon, with major Asian debt markets primed to mirror the moves in Treasuries as fears grow that the world economy is teetering on the brink of a recession. Yields in some Asian markets are tracking the …