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Appearance on the BBC’s Newsnight Program
The BBC has followed up my recent article in the New York Times. Last Thursday Gillian Tett, a top editor at the Financial Times, joined me for a discussion of the Japanese economy with Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s Newsnight … Continue reading
The Fingleton Invitation: Progress Report
People have asked me what happened to the Fingleton Invitation. The answer is nothing. Some months ago I invited Ed Lincoln, a former Tokyo-based economic adviser to the U.S. government, to join me for a public discussion of the Japanese … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
Tagged debate, edward j lincoln, japanese economy, lost decades
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The New York Times on Japan: Continuing fallout
Expert observers Holstein, Fallows, and Baker express their dismay at the Times’s miscues. I am not alone in challenging the New York Times’s recent account of a “disheartened” Japan. William J. Holstein, former president of the Overseas Press Club of America … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Press
Tagged dean baker, deflation, disheartened, good deflation, japan, japanese economy, william holstein
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