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Japan is better today thanks to PM Shinzo Abe
News, Noah Smith, Published on 30/08/2020
» Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, is resigning due to ulcerative colitis. He leaves behind a Japan that is economically stronger and more socially...
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Racism helps keep US safety net in weak state
News, Noah Smith, Published on 01/06/2020
» Last week, the economics profession lost one of its leading lights -- Harvard professor Alberto Alesina. The Italian economist, who died of a heart attack at...
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China’s US trade plan a red herring
News, Noah Smith, Published on 22/01/2019
» There has been an unexpected development in the US-China trade war. Chinese trade officials apparently offered a huge concession earlier this month: a promise...
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Why Japan desperately needs criminal-justice reform
News, Noah Smith, Published on 14/12/2018
» Japan's police recently threw the chairman of Nissan Motor Co, one of the country's largest auto manufacturers, into a jail cell. Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born...
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The future is in Africa, and China has a headstart
News, Noah Smith, Published on 22/09/2018
» During the past decade, China has been investing a lot of money in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Is social media just another addiction?
News, Noah Smith, Published on 06/04/2018
» With Facebook enduring a wave of public criticism for its cavalier approach to user privacy, it's becoming more apparent how important social media has become....
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Japan needs, but can't lure migrants
News, Noah Smith, Published on 01/12/2017
» Even as the Donald Trump administration tries to think up ways to keep talented foreigners out of the US, Japan is trying to lure them in. But it's having trouble...
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Voters want a bit more 'Abenomics'
News, Noah Smith, Published on 27/10/2017
» Japan's long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party has figured out a novel and interesting way to stay in power -- govern pragmatically, focus on the economy and give...
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Japan should spend a little less on its well-off elderly
News, Noah Smith, Published on 29/09/2017
» When discussing Japan's debt, most people get caught up in the issue of fiscal solvency. As everyone by now knows, Japan has a very high level of debt versus...
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Trump wants consumers to pay to keep coal alive
News, Noah Smith, Published on 13/10/2017
» In June, I wrote that by trying to prop up the dying coal industry, US President Donald Trump risks creating a US power industry that's "shackled to a corpse"....