Global debt is exploding. Major economies are facing a severe debt crisis, with debt-to-GDP ratios at unprecedented levels.

In effect, Covid ended Japan’s yield-capping experiment, because it vaulted the world into a high-interest-rate equilibrium.

Japan's PM Sanae Takaichi wants to spend big to boost sluggish growth, despite the country's already huge debt load. With bond yields already rising, a sudden spike could shock the financial world ...

The decision by US President Trump for a 90-day pause, set to expire in July, on “reciprocal tariffs” imposed on a wide range of countries has calmed financial markets, at least for the time being.

Japan’s public debt stands at over 250 per cent of GDP, far surpassing the levels in the United States, yet political and public complacency persists in the absence of a fiscal crisis. Amid cost of ...

While much of the attention from the crypto and traditional markets remains on the U.S., a recent analysis by a leading economist suggests it’s time to look east. Japan is teetering on the edge of a ...

The last thing that an over-indebted Japan struggling with inflation needs is a prime minister who advocates fiscal stimulus and a loose monetary policy to stimulate the Japanese economy. This would ...

Trump has imposed a 25 percent import tariff on Japanese automobiles and a 10 percent base-line tariff on all other imports from Japan. In addition, he has threatened to impose a 24 percent reciprocal ...

On October 21, Sanae Takaichi, the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was voted in as the 104th prime ...

In “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway famously has one of his characters describe how he went bankrupt. “First gradually, and then suddenly.” Judging by the way Japanese bond prices are now ...