Beyond alienating friends and partners, Mr Trump's tariffs will probably fail to advance his apparent goal of reducing the US trade deficit
If the economy's fall to number four is not enough to wake Japan up, it will soon fall to number five
Japan should view today's inflation as an opportunity to break its deflationary equilibrium and raise inflation expectations
Soaring inflation has spurred the European Central Bank and the Bank of England to do the same, though many economists still accuse all three monetary authorities of being behind the curve