The macroeconomic situation in Japan seems to be coming to a head. When the Bank of Japan, under its President Haruhiko Kuroda, announced on December 20, 2022, that it would raise its interest rate ceiling on ten-year Japanese government bonds from 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent, share prices in Tokyo plummeted and the Japanese yen appreciated
Major representatives of the European Central Bank—including ECB president Christine Lagarde—continue to warn against bitcoin. In a recent article, addressed to the inflation-adverse German audience, the ECB representative Klaus Masuch together with the former ECB chief economist Otmar Issing has stressed five risks of bitcoin: a lack of
Since the 1980s, slower economic growth in the industrial countries has been accompanied by declining interest rates. They have even turned negative in more recent years. At the same time, investment, productivity, and real GDP growth all have slowed. Recession caused by lockdowns of the economy to fight the corona pandemic in 2020/21 has
In his book Denationalisation of Money , F.A. Hayek argued that governments have never devoted their power to providing proper money over time. They “have refrained from grossly abusing it only when they were under such a discipline as the gold standard imposed.” The gold backing of the US dollar as the global reserve currency was lifted in the
Whereas inflation rates in the US and Europe have risen steeply in the course of 2021, consumer price inflation in Japan stood at 0.1 percent for October 2021 (figure 1). Also, Japan’s producer price inflation of 8 percent lagged far behind the US and Europe. Even more, Japan’s extremely low inflation has persisted for more than thirty
Ten years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, banks in the euro area have not recovered. The Euro Stoxx Financials is only 40% above its March 2009 low, well below its pre-crisis level (Fig. 1). By contrast, the S&P Financials index in the US has risen by 320%. The different fates of European and US financial institutions could be
The ECB’s zero and negative interest rate policy continues despite the economic upswing. An interest rate hike is not expected before autumn 2019. The extensive purchases of government and corporate bonds will have reached €2,600 billion by the end of the year. The ECB’s financial market supervision as part of the Single Supervisory Mechanism
In December 2012, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set out three arrows in his quiver to pull the country out of the more than 20 years lasting stagnation. Immense purchases of assets by the Bank of Japan, huge government spending programs and structural reforms should deliver a sustained recovery to the Japanese people. In the meantime, it is
La situación macroeconómica en Japón parece estar llegando a un punto crítico. Cuando el Banco de Japón, bajo la presidencia de Haruhiko Kuroda, anunció el 20 de diciembre de 2022 que elevaría del 0,25% al 0,50% el tipo de interés máximo de los bonos del Estado japonés a diez años, los precios de las acciones en Tokio se desplomaron y el yen
Los principales representantes del Banco Central Europeo —incluida la presidente del BCE, Christine Lagarde— siguen advirtiendo contra el bitcoin. En un artículo reciente, dirigido al público alemán reacio a la inflación, el representante del BCE, KlausMasuch , junto con el antiguo economista jefe del BCE, Otmar Issing, ha destacado cinco riesgos
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