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Japan’s National Debt Problem Visualized
Addogram provides us with a visual representation of an otherwise complicated concept – government accumulation of sovereign debt obligations. How has Japan, once one of the world’s top, booming economies, drifted into malaise and stagnation? A combination of low interest rates and deficit government spending has led to a situation in which the Japanese central […]
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Japan selects former finance minister as new Prime Minister.
Yoshihiko Noda will be the 6th Prime Minister of Japan elected in the past five years. He comes as Naoto Kan’s replacement, fulfilling Kan’s promise to step down as soon as the tsunami and its attendant crises had been sufficiently allayed. Like Kan, Yoshihiko Noda is from the Democratic Party of Japan, the first political […]
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