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...
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Mar 205 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 115 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 24 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...
Feb 214 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 15 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...
Jan 254 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 124 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 105 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...
Dec 13, 20234 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...
Nov 28, 20235 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 22, 20234 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 4, 20233 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...
Oct 21, 20234 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 10, 20235 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...
Sep 22, 20233 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 12, 20234 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,...
Aug 31, 20233 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 12, 20234 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, 20233 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...
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