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Daniel MossThe Japan Times |
When the history of this tumultuous week in South Korean politics is written, legislators who demanded the president rescind his declaration of...
In the strong-dollar policy’s heyday in the late 1990s, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin would often be probed for nuance in the doctrine. He was...
In little more than a week, China's efforts to crank up its economy have achieved something important: President Xi Jinping changed the conversation...
Japan's currency has been enjoying an epic rally and, at the time of this writing, heading for the biggest quarterly advance in years. That's quite a...
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is "Mr. Yen." He has been for some time, but it has taken a while for the world to catch on. This is a...
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda is starting to take some ownership of the weak yen — not before time. The end of negative interest rates, a step rich...
If only K-pop and cinema would get out of the way. South Korea has a ringside seat to the world economy, but struggles to get the attention it...
Singapore is undergoing a rare transition in leadership, the third since independence in 1965. More frequent have been the accolades directed at its...
Robert Rubin, the former U.S. Treasury secretary who added American firepower to the successful defense of the yen in the late 1990s, had some rules...
Paul O'Neill, a U.S. Treasury secretary under George W. Bush, ran into controversy on his first overseas trip when he had the temerity to question the...
Japan’s decision to jettison negative interest rates is rich in symbolism. Deflation, which dogged the economy for a generation, has been...
Japan is back, China is over. Only a few years ago, such an assertion would have been dismissed out of hand. Beijing was on the road to economic...
Never mind the legions of imported bankers, engineers, stevedores and nannies. Singapore's attraction for these pillars of a successful hub is well...
China’s disappointing recovery appears to be suffering another indignity. Neighbors whose economic fortunes were supposed to be tied to the heft of...
Pre-pandemic Australia looks like hallowed ground that the contemporary economy will struggle to surpass. For local officials who aspire to take a...