4 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Greek finance minister to talk reforms with Lagarde
Greek finance minister to talk reforms with Lagarde
Yanis Varoufakis will meet IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Washington Sunday to discuss planned reforms that Athens hopes will unlock bailout funds.
4 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on France halts search at Germanwings crash site
France halts search at Germanwings crash site
French investigators have ended their search for bodies in the Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all 150 people on board, a local official said on Saturday.
4 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on BaNZai7’S EaSTeR MaYHeM…
BaNZai7’S EaSTeR MaYHeM…
4 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Japan’s wary manufacturers resist Abe’s urge to splurge
Japan’s wary manufacturers resist Abe’s urge to splurge
Hirotoshi Ogura, a self-described “factory geek”, is Daikin Industries’ master of doing more with less – and part of the reason Japan’s recovery remains stuck in the slow lane. As Japan heads into the season of peak demand for room air-conditioners, Ogura and other Daikin managers have been tasked with figuring out how to boost output by some 20 percent at a plant in western Japan that six years ago the company had almost given up on as unprofitable. The wrinkle: they have no budget for new capital investment at the 45-year-old Kusatsu plant.
4 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Meet The New Recession Cycle – It’s Triggered By Bursting Bubbles, Not Surging Inflation
Meet The New Recession Cycle – It’s Triggered By Bursting Bubbles, Not Surging Inflation
4 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Ryan Avent on Secular Stagnation
Ryan Avent on Secular Stagnation
In the previous post I sort of hinted that Ryan Avent might be a bit more negative about the Summers/Krugman/Bernanke debate than he was letting on, when I suggested that he was being polite. Marcus Nunes pointed me to a great Avent post from 2013 that makes this criticism much more explicit:
4 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Venezuela Is Still Out Of Toilet Paper, Hotels Declare BYOTP
Venezuela Is Still Out Of Toilet Paper, Hotels Declare BYOTP
When you’re running an epic socialist experiment while simultaneously attempting to preserve the legacy of a now-deceased “anti-imperialist” geopolitcal legend and your country’s most valuable asset has unexpectedly become a liability, it’s sometimes necessary for the common man (and woman) to make sacrifices, which is why it makes sense that at one point this year, 36 read more