japanjapan.blogspot.com - 1/31/2009
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By Claus Vistesen: Copenhagen
As I wind up, post exam session, for some serious economic analysis it is to an economic landscape which is increasingly looking like a surreal mixture between Kafka and Dali. Having been paying only scant attention to the data stream the past 5 months, I have been ...
stefanmikarlsson.blogspot.com - 1/30/2009
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It is a well-established empirical fact that whenever
global stock markets fall, the yen and to a...
lesser extent also the Swiss franc tends to rise in value versus other currencies while for example the dollars of Australia and New Zealand tends to ...
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The Theoretical Basis For The Yen-Stock Market Link
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naked capitalism —
... Japan's Economy - No End in Sight? Japan Economy Watch. A reader chided me for not pointing out how world class awful the Friday factory production release was out of Japan, and other economic updates from the Land of the Rising Sun have been less than stellar. This post gives an excellent and longer ranging overview. ...
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naked capitalism —
... Japan's Economy - No End in Sight? Japan Economy Watch. A reader chided me for not pointing out how world class awful the Friday factory production release was out of Japan, and other economic updates from the Land of the Rising Sun have been less than stellar. This post gives an excellent and longer ranging overview. ...
Japan has some problems too
Angry Bear —
... was a good one. It highlights the historical assumption that the developed world would eventually close in on us, by rising to our level - not by dragging us down. But globalization is at least partially about convergence, and the leverage in the west papered over fundamental unsustainabilities about such rosy western convergence notions that must be confronted in the absence of cold-nuclear fusion, flux capacitors and unlimited resources. Japan Watch has a lot of graphs and thoughts: Global rules make for ...
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