Gunther Schnabl

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Japan Rice Price Crisis Reveals a Twofold Policy Dilemma

08/19/2025 Mises Wire Taiki Murai Gunther Schnabl

Japan's economy is caught between inflationary monetary policy and powerful agricultural interests. There is no easy way out.

Is the Japanese Low Inflation–Low Interest Rate Model at an End?

02/01/2023 Mises Wire Gunther Schnabl Thomas Mayer

For nearly three decades, the Japanese economy has slowly imploded under low interest rates and heavy government debt. It may soon be time to pay the piper.

Central Banks Have Been Hedging Rampant Regulation. Will This End Now?

08/10/2022 Mises Wire Gunther Schnabl

The latest bout of inflation has exposed how central banks around the world have used easy money policies to help cover for the economic drag created by the regulatory state.

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Is the Japanese Low Inflation–Low Interest Rate Model at an End?

02/13/2023 Gunther Schnabl Thomas Mayer

For nearly three decades, the Japanese economy has slowly imploded under low interest rates and heavy government debt. It may soon be time to pay the piper.

Central Banks Have Been Hedging Rampant Regulation. Will This End Now?

08/17/2022 Gunther Schnabl

The latest bout of inflation has exposed how central banks around the world have used easy money policies to help cover for the economic drag created by the regulatory state.

How the BOJ Created “Noninflationary” Money While Ruining the Japanese Economy

07/12/2022 Taiki Murai Gunther Schnabl

The relative lack of inflation in Japan doesn't mean real wages haven't fallen.

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