Author: Richard Werner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131746219X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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This eye-opening book offers a disturbing new look at Japan's post-war economy and the key factors that shaped it. It gives special emphasis to the 1980s and 1990s when Japan's economy experienced vast swings in activity. According to the author, the most recent upheaval in the Japanese economy is the result of the policies of a central bank less concerned with stimulating the economy than with its own turf battles and its ideological agenda to change Japan's economic structure. The book combines new historical research with an in-depth behind-the-scenes account of the bureaucratic competition between Japan's most important institutions: the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan. Drawing on new economic data and first-hand eyewitness accounts, it reveals little known monetary policy tools at the core of Japan's business cycle, identifies the key figures behind Japan's economy, and discusses their agenda. The book also highlights the implications for the rest of the world, and raises important questions about the concentration of power within central banks.
Author: Toru Toba
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975385160
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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It ain’t easy being a genius...Prince Wein is ready to commit treason. And who can blame him? Faced with the impossible task of ruling his pathetic little kingdom, this poor guy just can’t catch a break! But with his brilliant idea of auctioning off his country, this lazy prince should be able to retire once and for all. Or that was the plan...until his treasonous schemes lead to disastrous consequences—namely, accidental victories and the favor of his people!
Author: Toru Toba
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975310012
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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IT AINT EASY BEING A GOOD BROTHER!It’s time for the three Imperial princes to meet and argue their way to the throne in the city of merchants, Mealtars. Sounds like a good opportunity for Wein to take a breather since this gathering obviously has nothing to do with him...until Imperial Princess Lowellmina goes out of her way to invite him to Mealtars, too. But Wein’s already learned that it’s always better to decline her offers. Turns out, things would have gone smoother if he’d just attended, because now he has to deal with a whole new problem: his sister, Falanya, going in his stead!
Author: Toru Toba
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975385187
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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It ain't easy being a bachelor...His people might laud him for being the next great ruler, but Prince Wein of Natra has been conspiring behind their backs to live the languid life of a retired teen. Now, a major roadblock stands in his way. Ever since he won a war with a neighboring country, he’s become a household name all across the land...which, frankly, sucks. And as if things couldn’t get any worse, Prince Wein has just met his newest challenger: the Imperial Princess Lowellmina, who’s here for a secret favor-to ask for his hand in marriage?! It’s just too good to be true! Well, this genius’s instincts may be spot-on, because there’s something lurking behind her plan to make Wein her trophy husband...
Author: Joseph Wang
Publisher: Joseph Wang
ISBN: 0999136755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending. And with a few poor decisions, the Fed can plunge the entire world into a recession. The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, and also one of the most difficult to understand. The Fed acts through its Open Markets Desk, which sits at the heart of the global financial system as the world’s ultimate and limitless provider of dollars. On behalf of policy makers, the Desk gathers market intelligence from all the major market participants, sifts through reams of internal data, and works behind the scenes keep the financial system intact. It is responsible for all of the Fed's market operations, from trillions in quantitative easing to hundreds of billions in repo and FX-swap loans. The financial crises of 2008 and 2020 abated only through the emergency interventions of the Desk. Joseph Wang spent five years studying the monetary system as a trader on the Desk. From that vantage point, Joseph saw firsthand how the Fed operates and how the financial system really works. This book is a distillation of his experience that aims to educate and demystify. After reading this book, you will understand how money is created, how the global dollar system is structured, and how it all fits into the broader financial system. The views in this book do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.
Author: Nomi Prins
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1568585632
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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In this searing exposéformer Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, the open door between private and central banking has ensured endless opportunities for market manipulation and asset bubbles -- with government support. Through on-the-ground reporting, Prins reveals how five regions and their central banks reshaped economics and geopolitics. She discloses how Mexico navigated its relationship with the US while striving for independence and how Brazil led the BRICS countries to challenge the US dollar's hegemony. She explains how China's retaliation against the Fed's supremacy is aiding its ongoing ascent as a global superpower and how Japan is negotiating the power shift from the West to the East. And she illustrates how the European response to the financial crisis fueled instability that manifests itself in everything from rising populism to the shocking Brexit vote. Packed with tantalizing details about the elite players orchestrating the world economy -- from Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi to Ben Bernanke and Christine Lagarde -- Collusion takes the reader inside the most discreet conversations at exclusive retreats like Jackson Hole and Davos. A work of meticulous reporting and bracing analysis, Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance.
Author: Yoshiichi Akahito
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 0316354694
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Fight corpses with corpses!! Reanimated corpses called Shikabane walk the earth, but the Kougon Sect of the Grand Marshal School of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism has a means to combat them. Enter the Corpse Princesses! Undead-killers (usually young women) stand as humanity's first line of defense against the evil that lurks in the shadows, but can humanity tolerate defenders who are corpses themselves...? One Corpse Princess, Makina, may be the first to find out!
Author: R. Werner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230506070
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Modern mainstream economics is attracting an increasing number of critics of its high degree of abstraction and lack of relevance to economic reality. Economists are calling for a better reflection of the reality of imperfect information, the role of banks and credit markets, the mechanisms of economic growth, the role of institutions and the possibility that markets may not clear. While it is one thing to find flaws in current mainstream economics, it is another to offer an alternative paradigm which, can explain as much as the old, but can also account for the many 'anomalies'. That is what this book attempts. Since one of the biggest empirical challenges to the 'old' paradigm has been raised by the second largest economy in the world - Japan - this book puts the proposed 'new paradigm' to the severe test of the Japanese macroeconomic reality.
Author: Toru Toba
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 1975313712
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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IT AIN’T EASY BEING A DIPLOMAT!After the debacle in Mealtars, all eyes are on the small kingdom of Natra.The citizens are partying it up! Meanwhile, Prince Wein is busy fretting over Marden,a newly acquired territory basking in good fortune, much to the envy of hisloyal subjects. To prevent the scales from tipping too much in Marden's favor, he'sstarting to think it might be necessary to form some kind of alliance with KingGruyere from Soljest. As if answering his prayers, an invitation lands in hislap—from the great king himself!
Author: Bai Gao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521793735
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Japanese economy, after decades of seemingly unsurpassable competitiveness, experienced a major crisis in the 1990s. Observers of Japan are faced with a challenging question: How can one explain Japan's reversal from stunning prosperity to dismal stagnation? Bai Gao, in this illuminating, comprehensive analysis of Japan's economic story goes beyond other analyses to demonstrate how the same economic institutions could produce both stunning economic success and the slump of the 1990s. By comparing the factors that sustained miracle growth in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s with the factors that led to the bubble economy of the late 1980s, Gao sheds new light on internal tensions in the Japanese economic system and how, finally, they 'burst the bubble' in the 1990s. Those who have been following the lively debate over 'What Became of the Japanese Miracle?' will be rewarded by Gao's richly detailed, historically informed, and multilayered contribution.
