Macro Economy Wage Hikes: The LDP Manifesto Fails, NHK Misses the Mark, and Economists Shout Empty Slogans of “Productivity”
On June 19, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) announced its...
Macro Economy
Macro Economy Macro Economy A Shinjiro Koizumi Premiership: Fast-Tracking Toward a “Lost 40 Years”?
While former Agriculture Minister Eto struggled to effective...
Macro Economy The JCP Is Difficult to Classify as “Pro-Expansionary Fiscal Policy”
The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) recently released its man...
Macro Economy Stop Chasing “Pension Sustainability” Right Now
I firmly believe that the obsession with fiscal discipline h...
Macro Economy Tax Cut Funding: Not “As a Last Resort,” but “By Issuing Bonds”
I have repeatedly argued that the government must evaluate t...
Macro Economy The BOJ’s Real Wage Forecast Error: A Failure Surpassed Only by the LDP-Komeito Coalition
In March, real wages fell by 2.1% year-on-year in terms of t...
Macro Economy The Folly of the “Consumption Tax as a Stable Revenue Source” Argument
Prime Minister Ishiba and other mainstream LDP lawmakers unf...
Macro Economy The Ultimate Irresponsibility: When the LDP Demands “Funding Sources”
According to reports from January 2025, LDP Secretary-Genera...
Macro Economy The Emptiness of the “Savings to Investment” Push under a High-Tax Administration
On the official Prime Minister’s Office website, a 2023 docu...
Macro Economy My Take on the Trump Tariffs: Why Japan’s Fiscal Policy is the Real Problem
Nations worldwide are scrambling to react to the Trump admin...