Month: December 2022

Takehiko Nakao is a former senior Japanese Finance Ministry official. A former Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs (which means he was in charge of yen intervention decisions). He is being touted as a contender to replace Governor Haruhiko Kuroda next year when Kuroda’s term finishes in April 2023. Reuters carry a piece with comments
From the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Says the researcher has found a recession predictor based on macroeconomic time series, particularly the jobless unemployment rate. This predictor is almost as accurate as the slope of the yield curve but is more accurate at shorter horizons. If you are just
I posted yesterday on : The other leg of this, allowing Chinese people to travel overseas, was not addressed by the announcement. However, the latest from Chinese state media is that: Chinese citizens’ applications for ordinary passports for tourism and visits abroad from January 8, 2023, said the China’s National Immigration Administration has said it’ll