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JAPAN gaat 9,7% meer betalen voor import tarwe

De valutaoorlog raakt de JAPANse consument, want door de zwakkere munt worden importgoederen duurder. Vanaf april zal men voor de import van tarwe 9,7% meer gaan betalen dan nu het geval is. In januari liet JAPAN het grootste tekort op de handelsbalans ooit zien.

Flink wat onenigheid tussen JAPAN & China

JAPAN wil de relatie met China verbeteren. Dat heeft de JAPANse premier Shinzo Abe via een brief aan Xi Jinping, de vicepresident en toekomstige president van China, laten weten.

Kuroda moet Abe’s JAPAN redden

Het zat er al een tijd aan te komen, maar het is sinds donderdag officieel: Harihuko Kuroda zal de nieuwe president worden van de Bank of JAPAN en daarmee Abenomics tot uitvoering moeten brengen.

Een zware taak voor het oude hoofd van de Aziatische ontwikkelingsbank die een belangrijke taak zal gaan uitvoeren in het plan van de nieuwe JAPANse premier Abe om groei te bewerkstelligen door middel van zowel fiscale en monetaire verruiming. Twee weken geleden gaf Kuroda nog

JAPANse voedselprijzen gaan 10% omhoog

If the past three months have been any indication of what JAPAN has to look forward to from Abenomics, we have a feeling his tenure will be as short, if not shorter, than all of his recent (and numerous, among which he, himself) predecessors. Because while the stock market may have risen in lock step with the plunge in the Yen, what has also soared are costs. And while a very select few benefit from the transitory surge in the Nikkei, the rising costs, i.e., inflation, hit everyone equally.

Bankier:

China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world economies. Debunking popular misconceptions, Pettis shows that severe trade imbalances spurred on the recent financial crisis were the result of unfortunate policies that distorted the savings and consumption patterns of certain nations. Pettis examines the reasons behind these destabilizing policies, and he predicts severe economic dislocations, a lost decade for China, the breaking of the Euro, and a receding of the U.S. dollar that will have long-lasting effects. Pettis explains how China has maintained massive but unsustainable investment growth by artificially lowering the cost of capital. He discusses how Germany is endangering the Euro by favoring its own development at the expense of its neighbors. And he looks at how the U.S. dollar's role as the world's reserve currency burdens America's economy. Although various imbalances may seem unrelated, Pettis shows that all of them -- including the U.S. consumption binge, surging debt in Europe, China's investment orgy, JAPAN's long stagnation, and the commodity boom in Latin America are closely tied together, and that it will be impossible to resolve any issue without forcing a resolution for all. Demonstrating how economic policies can carry negative repercussions the world over, The Great Rebalancing sheds urgent light on our globally linked economic future.