‘Introduction: Japan’s Secular Stagnation in the US Mirror’, Introduction to Japan’s Secular Stagnation, Special Issue of The Japanese Political Economy, co-edited with Makoto Itoh Abstract This introduction frames the contributions that follow in a...
US President-elect Donald Trump has been treating the world to a “shock and awe” torrent of economic threats: tariffs on allies as well as adversaries; deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants; retaliation against de-dollarisation...
The latest U.S. Consumer Price Index report shows inflation further dropping to 2.9 percent, the first time to fall below 3 percent in more than three years. Though this is good news, it’s not...
Understanding of the dollar’s world role is dominated by the ideas of ‘dollar hegemony’ and ‘US hegemony’. In this paper, based on our extensive past work, we reveal how these ideas are ideologies, not theories....
As NATO leaders gather in Brussels, U.S. President Joe Biden’s “America is Back” approach is expected to revive the alliance former U.S. President Donald Trump had dismissed as “obsolete” and demoralized by demanding members fulfill...
President Biden is taking his “‘democracies’ against China” show to the London Group of Seven (G7) Summit. His agenda, set out in his op-ed piece in the Washington Post, was to convince fellow Western...
With U.S. core inflation rising past the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target last week, last year’s great inflation debate was reignited. Of the several fronts along which it has raged – Is inflation a...
President Biden has promised a Summit of Democracies during his first year in office. It will aim to shift his China policy from inconvenient trade disruptions to the high-minded plane of democracy and human...
U.S. climate envoy, John Kerry, arrived in Shanghai on April 14 laden with expectations of millions who supported President Joe Biden because he promised a cooperative approach to dealing with global problems like climate...
