Japan is a good trade partner and a key source of investment into the U.S. Monetary easing, rather than aggressive jawboning, is the best approach to the imbalances that remain.
Child-care subsidies and paid parental leave boost fertility rates by reducing the economic and opportunity costs of having children.
Making college free for all isn't the right way to insure poor students have access to higher education.
The days of U.S. economic supremacy are over.
Another big scandal is rocking corporate Japan. This time it's Kobe Steel Ltd., a major producer, which has confessed to faking data on the quality of its materials. Everything from bullet trains to cars to U.S.-made airliners could be affected. It's doubtful that the ...
Instead of trying to design a new theory-of-everything to explain anomalies, Richard Thaler borrowed or created situation-specific theories.
Lowering pension and medical benefits to well-off elderly people looks like Japan's least-bad option to rein in its debt.
There has been an explosion of commercial interest in flying cars.
QE probably helped end the Great Recression, though we'll never know for sure.
If managed wisely, immigration can be a boon for Japan.
