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Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
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Unemployment in Europe, Japan and the USA. Stimulus measures in the U.S. and safety nets in Japan and Europe: 2008-2010
01/05/2007
How safety nets in Japan and Europe do what the stimulus helps to do in the USA. Coping with high unemployment.
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Tackling middle class poverty in the U.S.- causes and strategies
03/11/2009
Shrinking incomes, low job growth, growth in temporary jobs, offshoring of jobs, are part of a trend since 1989. This is compounded by acceleration of developments during the last decade of low savings and paltry return on savings, effects on net worth of the financial crisis of 2008 through job losses, lost income, foreclosures, high cost of health care and college tution for children. The combination is creating a new kind of middle class poverty in the U.S. The Obama administration has pushed for college education even as it is becoming less affordable and neglected jobs training. The push to raise the minimum wage helps the poor but does not do as much for the middle class.
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Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
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New York Times 06/09/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
8 States to Raise Minimum Wage
New York Times 12/23/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
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Fragility of social cohesion in the U.S. with unemployment concentrated in the lower middle and working classes.
03/11/2009
Figures from the Center of Labor Market Studies of Northeastern University in Boston showing unemployment of 9% in the $40,000 to $50,000 annual household income group and going up to 31% at the lowest income group. Higher inequality as differences in education between lower income and higher income Americans grows. The problem of the long term unemployed is a serious one.
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Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
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OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/2013
Krugman and Stiglitz on Occupy Wall Street and inequality in America
04/01/2009
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Stiglitz and Sen's report point to need for looking at multiple indicators of growth, including education, health care and environment.
12/30/2005
Be skeptical of touting GDP growth numbers. China which has done this has learnt from this experience as it shifts to trying to assess the costs of environmental degradation in headlong industrialization. The U.S. and the shift to bigger houses and bigger cars, which later fed a collapse of housing and the auto industry show a different angle of this obsession with GDP numbers that can work constructively or destructively if not understood and managed properly. Air quality and pollution is a major problem in China and affects the quality of life.
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The Meltdown According to Stiglitz
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Krugman on student financial aid in the U.S. and the lack of education mobility for the middle class
01/28/2009
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Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
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The Great Stagnation in American Education
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Americaâs Sinking Middle Class
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College Tuition Increases Slow, but Government Aid Falls
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2013
Upward Mobility Has Not Declined, Study Says
New York Times 01/23/2014
Support for Japan's Abe government and the Bank of Japan's policy to fight deflation
05/12/2011
The IMF's Lagarde calls Japan's policy "sound," and U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke says he supports countries looking at domestic economies when conducting monetary policy. The overall effect would be to help the global economy through a better performing domestic economy, says Bernanke. Gaining support in the global community for Japan's moves to reduce the value of the yen is important for the Abe administration and Japanese finance minister Taro Aso. These views were expressed at the G-20 meeting in Moscow in Feb. 2013.
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Wall Street Journal 04/18/2013
Japan Official Cites Fundamentals in Yen's Drop
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G-20 Backs Japan on Yen Policies
Wall Street Journal 04/20/2013
OECD Welcomes BOJ Inflation Target, Easing
Wall Street Journal 04/23/2013
Pro-Inflation Policies Show Signs of Helping the Japanese Economy
New York Times 05/09/2013
New York Times 05/23/2013
Comparisons of the U.S. Economy with Japan, considering the Federal Reserve's easy money policy and little lending by banks.
10/15/2009
Is the US economy already in a liquidity trap with exploding monetary growth and little consumer lending asks Christopher Wood. Views of other experts on the subject.
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Target Is 'Flexible,' Says Japan Bank Chief
Wall Street Journal 04/12/2013
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New York Times 06/09/2013
Sluggish Economic Recovery Proves Resilient
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Errors made- US and Japanese economy comparisons for a lost decade.
02/13/2009
Japan's economy suffered badly after a flood of credit and bad loans, resulting in deflation and a lost decade. The comparison with what the US faces now.
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Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
Japanese Prices Rise, Signaling Rebound
Wall Street Journal 07/26/2013
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New York Times 02/13/2009
In Japan’s Stagnant Decade, Cautionary Tales for America
New York Times 02/13/2009
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Abe: U.S., Japan Close to TPP Trade Deal
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Friedman reviews "Why Nations Fail" by Acemoglu and Robinson
01/15/2011
The need for an inclusive society to generate growth and create opportunities. The failure of societies which concentrate power and many in the hands of a few. The experience of Britain and the U.S. in the modern period of the age of enlightenment and the industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries compared to the decline in Asia. Similiar views expressed by Adam Smith in his "Wealth of Nations," documenting the changes in Britain in the period from the feudal to the industrial period that brought progressive change and improvement in the lives of the people. The lessons for today in a period of increasing inequality in the U.S. and China, are self-evident.
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Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
New York Times 09/12/2013
Upward Mobility Has Not Declined, Study Says
New York Times 01/23/2014
Janet Yellen Warns of Inequality Threat
New York Times 10/17/2014
Bad Stock-Market Timing Fueled Wealth Disparity
Wall Street Journal 10/27/2014
Income Inequality Is Costing the U.S. on Social Issues
New York Times 04/28/2015
Inequality, education and economic mobility in the U.S. compared with Western Europe and Canada
01/11/2010
Issues raised by Jeb Bush, Krugman, and people in leadership positions.
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Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
New York Times 06/22/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
New York Times 09/12/2013
Patchwork of Local Wage Laws Fuels Debate Over Raising Federal Minimum
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
The Economy Needs a Bit of Ingenuity
New York Times 08/06/2010
Joseph Stiglitz on the way the Obama administration handled the economy and his vision for the future.
01/23/2008
A squandered opportunity says Stiglitz of Obama's handling of the economy. He presents his vision and solution and action plan.
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Washington Post 09/06/2011
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
Charlie Rose Talks to Robert Reich
BusinessWeek 10/21/2010
Geithner's Plan: Loopholes Galore
BusinessWeek 04/01/2009
New York Times 04/01/2009
Voters’ Second Thoughts on Hope and Change
New York Times 11/04/2014
Stiglitz and Zandi offer a solution to the housing and foreclosure crisis that has stalled the economy
01/23/2008
The proposal for mass mortgage refinancing by Stiglitz and Zandi in August 2012. Obama administration efforts have failed to tackle the foreclosure crisis. Earlier proposals by Martin Feldstein and by Sheila Bair have largely been ignored by the Obama administration as housing problems continue to affect the economic recovery.
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Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
Wall Street Journal 12/31/2013
New York Times 04/01/2009
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
Wall Street Journal 04/26/2015
The One Housing Solution Left: Mass Mortgage Refinancing
New York Times 08/12/2012
Krugman on Japan and the economic policy of the Shinzo Abe government
01/13/2013
Krugman describes the break with orthodox policy of the Abe government and says it is working.
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New York Times 05/23/2013
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
In Japan, a Growth Strategy With Echoes of the Past
New York Times 06/12/2013
New York Times 10/30/2014
With Bad Economic News for Japan, Abe’s Magic Seems to Evaporate
New York Times 11/20/2014
There’s No Recession at Japan Inc.
Wall Street Journal 11/28/2014
Getting economic policy right- A second look at Japan, the European Union and the U.S. in 2014-2015
06/09/2013
In taking a second look, economists Stiglitz and Krugman ask if much derided Japan has avoided the worst effects of unemployment that have affected Spain, Italy, Greece, and France in the eurozone, and for the the long term unemployed in the U.S. And in doing so also avoided the widening income and wealth gaps opened up in the other industrialized countries.
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