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Mohamed A. El-Erian
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2023
JPMorgan, First Republic and the curse of the second best
The solution to regional banks¡¯ problems such as the JPMorgan-First Republic deal raises more questions and concerns about the U.S. financial system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Dec 31, 2020
Potential for a big bounce-back in 2021?
Engineering a big economic rebound in 2021, and maintaining strong and sustainable growth thereafter, will require much more than a COVID-19 vaccine.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2020
U.S. must do better on its second COVID-19 test
The nation needs to incorporate lessons from its first ¡°natural experiment¡± about policy relief, social distancing, testing and contact tracing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2020
China tests global diplomacy and economy
The country risks nations¡¯ pushback as it moves ahead with its ambitions under the cover of COVID-19.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2020
The Fed¡¯s barrage faces some obstacles to success
The U.S. central bank¡¯s intervention carries the risk of backfiring.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2018
G20 gives markets a short-term win
China and the U.S. agree to freeze tariffs for three months, but that¡¯s about it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2017
The 2018 outlook for major central banks
The biggest risk to asset prices and the global economy would be if the most powerful institutions reduce their monetary stimulus at the same time.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2017
Tech and regulators can find common ground
Big shocks to the landscape, including the operating context for both incumbents and disrupters, require adaptations that can be — and often are — inherently complex.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2017
What a London cabbie learned from Uber
Uber has delivered a much-needed wake-up call to London¡¯s taxi industry.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2017
How Turkey¡¯s vote could be a prelude to a French election surprise
Insights from Turkey¡¯s referendum add to the possibility of a victory by one of France¡¯s unconventional presidential candidates.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 17, 2016
Five lessons from Â鶹´«Ã½ negative-rate experiment
Â鶹´«Ã½ experiment with negative interest rates suggests the need for even greater qualifications to the already cautious assessments of unconventional monetary policies.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2015
John Nash¡¯s game theory and Greece
Applying Nash¡¯s game theory to the Greek crisis shows that the best we can realistically expect is yet another attempt to postpone painful decisions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2015
Greece¡¯s worst option would be IMF default
The uncertainty over this week¡¯s payment to the IMF is just the latest episode of a multiyear tragedy for Greece and its creditors as they try to navigate a situation that has been managed too timidly for too long.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2015
Economic transformation creeping into Egypt
With bad news generating many of the headlines from the Middle East, it has been easy to miss the ongoing transformation of the Egyptian economy.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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