Todays ratings downgrade by SP for Japanese public debt has brought further attention to Japans huge and growing debt burden. Yet with each round of concern,

On the downside, MPI warns that yen appreciation increases Vietnams debt burden. Japan is the leading supplier of ODA (official development assistance, i.e., foreign aid) to Vietnam. Therefore, yen appreciation will make it more costly ...

If you think this idea will force every European household to purchase a wheelbarrow with which to transport its soontobeworthless currency, consider the case of Japan. With a 227 percent sovereign debt to GDP ratio, Japan is the ...

As of right now, with JAL being only US$11billion in debt, down from its original US$26billion in debt and investors such as Japans Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation seeking to invest US$3.5billon into the airlines ...

Let this be a reminder that the ongoing popularity of the yen and JGB (Japanese Government Bonds) should throw a big fat wrench into any notion that any simplistic ideas about the size of a countrys debt, and the strength of their ...

Japanese Debt And Growth. Just a quick note: I thought it might be worth doing an IronsBivens plot for Japan (and, to be honest, I wanted to see if I had finally managed to trick a spreadsheet into labeling the data points). ...