What Is the Impact of Chinese Finance Ministry Reshuffle
It is frequently said that trying to trade politics is a fools errand, but it does impact the macro-economic direction. Yesterday, China announced...
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Why Hold Japan, Part I: Relative Tax Regimes
SummaryForeign investors now form the largest cohort of investors in Japanese stocks, according to Tokyo Stock Exchange data. Yet given Japan's...
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Lack of Term Premium Continues to Cost Japanese Banks with Limited Financial Flexibility
The Bank of Japan has just released its semiannual assessment on the financial system with an explicit focus on the negative interest rate...
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The Holy Grail of Reflation: "from Savings to Investment"
Recent large government privatisations (Japan Post and JR Kyushu) have brought with it a positive tendency, as we pointed out in The Reflationary...
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Structural Reform III: Evidence of Bad Luck over Poor Policy
Room for small hope amid bleak Japanese policy reform recordUntil now, our analysis of Japanese structural reform, centred upon raising Japanese...
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