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The problem with the complexity and stringency of regulations is that “cleaning up” a voting roll can amount to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Voter purges are already dangerous when spelling mistakes or address changes can accidentally render someone ineligible. Last week, we...
Japan learned how to handle a financial crisis the hard way. In the 1990s, after stock and real estate bubbles imploded, the country experienced a financial debacle similar to the one facing the U.S. today. The result was the Lost Decade. Between 1992 and 2003, Japan's real GDP growth...
But based on their experience, Japanese analysts believe that actions to date have been insufficient. They say that in addition to the U.S. Treasury Department's plan to spend $700 billion buying bad assets from banks, the government also needs to recapitalize banks using taxpayer money. Only then will confidence...
The clear message from Asia is that more intervention is needed to restore the financial system. The crisis is "now too big to be solved by the private sector," says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist of Nomura Securities in Tokyo. It's a lesson Asia learned a decade ago.
The big oil producers have good reason to be nervous. Many are still haunted by a disastrous error made at an Opec meeting in Jakarta in 1999, when the cartel - which produces more than a third of the world's oil - opted to raise its production levels. Within weeks Asian...