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...both become concerns due to price inflation. But because dollar-based profits from overseas will drop, corporations could cut back on capital investment and employment, which will have a spillover effect on households. "The negatives outweigh the positives," says Masafumi Yamamoto, head of foreign exchange strategy for Japan at Royal Bank of Scotland...
Others aren't that patient. "We need drastic measures to solve these problems," says Yamamoto of Royal Bank of Scotland. "Intervention may work to buy time, but it's not a fundamental solution. The authorities in Japan know this and they're hesitant to act." Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga did say this week that "excessive exchange rate moves are undesirable." But, in relative terms, the yen is not as weak as it was in 2004, when the government last intervened. Central bankers in Japan believe a rate of 100 yen to the dollar is not excessive appreciation but rather...
...over-long, over-complicated, oroverwrought; it isn’t slow or boring; itisn’t bad.The trouble is, it isn’t particularlygood, either. And if not for its compellingsource material—the story of EmpressMichiko, the first commoner to marryinto the Japanese royal family—thenovel would be much worse. Despite itsvivid subject, Schwartz’s bland executionproduces a book that is curiously unremarkable,even memorably forgettable.“The Commoner” tells the story ofEmpress Haruko, Schwartz’s fictionalizedvision of Empress Michiko. The basicplot is one that?...
...robbery as a kind of sting, arranged by MI 5, a branch of the British secret service. Their idea was to make the crime look like a standard heist, allow the robbers to keep the loot if they could escape the investigating cops, but grab the embarrassing evidence of royal playfulness. To this end, they engage the astonishingly beautiful Martine (Saffron Burrows) to recruit the crime team - a bunch of small time crooks (led by the excellent Jason Statham, who is on his way to broody stardom) from her old lower class neighborhood. This is the film's central irony...
...Russian-made Ingla surface-to-air missiles to be air-dropped into FARC territory inside Colombia. After meetings in Curacao, Copenhagen and Bucharest, the DEA, through confidential sources, arranged for Bout to travel to Bangkok, Thailand to finalize the deal on March 6. That's when the Royal Thai police, working with the DEA, arrested him on charges of providing material support of a foreign terrorist organization, a designation slapped on FARC...