Bloomberg (August 10)
2014/ 08/ 11 by jd in Global News
The Bank of Japan has refrained from additional monetary stimulus; an apparent acknowledgement that “pumping more money into the economy won’t end Japan’s deflation. Falling prices are as much about the aging population as anything else, and only structural change can arrest the trend.” Fortunately, the economy might just be driven by “a new breed of Japanese companies going overseas as the domestic market shrinks.”
Tags: Aging population, BOJ, Deflation, Economy, Japan, Market, Monetary stimulus, Overseas, Prices, Structural change