‘Cheap Japan’ falling fast on global economy tables

‘Cheap Japan’ falling fast on global economy tables

From asiatimes.com

No Japanese leader wants to preside over a bad milestone — like your economy dropping from No 3 to No 4 globally. Welcome to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s hellish 2024. Barely six weeks in, Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party is struggling to spin Japan’s falling behind Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) in US dollar terms and the LDP’s culpability for this symbolic changing of the guard. Kishida’s party is also giving Chinese leader Xi Jinping something of a much-needed soft power win. At a moment when Beijing is struggling to tame a property crisis, head off deflationary forces, restore confidence ... (full story)

I love how the Japanese just do their own thing. Go go go.

If they cheap, Yen smiles theory will win.

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