Op/ed: Lessons from Japan’s struggle to recover from a post-bubble bout of deflation
At its core, Abe’s decision to postpone the consumption-tax increase reflects the chaos that prolonged weak economic momentum inflicts on countries wishing to pursue more than one objective — in this case, raising living standards, curtailing the growth in government debt and breaking the private sector’s deflationary mindset.
Editorial: Justice for Alvaro
Alvaro Medrano, Sr. who, with owner Ken Riding, managed the La Vista Vineyard in Paso Robles, was confronted, beaten and killed by off-duty correctional officers on the streets of San Miguel on Sept. 7.
Op/ed: What’s ‘right’ and what’s ‘left’ in national political scene
Bloomberg View’s Cass Sunstein reports on research showing that “partyism” is now an even deeper social division in American society than racism. Political commentator Jonathan Chait thinks that’s just fine: He wouldn’t want his child to marry a Republican.
Op/ed: It’s time to throw the book at currency bid riggers
Fining institutions makes great headlines, but those billion-dollar penalties punish shareholders, not the wrongdoers, and won’t change the culture of banking.
Editorial: Our winners and losers from a landmark vote
Since, as somebody once said, elections have consequences, we’ll spend the next few paragraphs trying to identify some of the obvious and not-so-obvious winners and losers.
