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Ishiba's summit absence shows lack of Nato faith
Oped, Sayuri Romei and Alice Dell'Era, Published on 21/07/2025
» Since a Japanese prime minister first attended a Nato summit in 2022, Japan has sent its highest-level representative to the event for three consecutive years. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a key catalyst for Tokyo's decision to attend that year, and the 2025 summit in The Hague would have marked the fourth consecutive appearance by a Japanese leader.
Central banking's bankrupt narrative
Business, Roger Farmer, Published on 06/09/2019
» Former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers and economist Anna Stansbury recently cast doubt on the future of central banking, suggesting the prevailing monetary policy framework is in dire need of a rethink.
Taxing the intangible economy
Business, Roger E.A. Farmer, Published on 13/07/2018
» Some very clever people, including the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, are expressing concerns over the slowdown in productivity growth. And, given that productivity (measured as GDP per hour worked) is the ultimate driver of increases in living standards, they are right to be worried.