Macroeconomic indicators – stocks, bonds, debt levels, real estate, unemployment – show that China's downturn is following ...

Japan’s economy managed to grow in the fourth quarter of last year, averting a recession, according to revised government data released Monday that had previously shown a contraction. Real gross ...

Japan’s economy avoided a technical recession, revised government data showed on Monday, even though the upward change in the fourth quarter was weaker than expected and highlighted concerns ...

In November, Japan’s third quarter GDP figures revealed that the economy had again contracted, thereby indicating that it had officially dipped into recession. Just weeks later, however, the numbers ...

History tells us something different, does it not? On the Japanese recession, Krugman differs with Alesina and Ardagna on the timing and forcefulness of the government's "stimulus" actions ...

Fiscal and monetary policies like cutting taxes or lowering interest rates can coax an economy out of recession. Enough on our economy. Japan and the UK are technically in a recession. These ...

It seemed like everything Japan’s central bank tried to do to help didn’t work: Interest rates were slashed to zero, and kept there for a very long time; still, the recession continued.

This is what we now recognize as a "balance-sheet recession," a term the Nomura economist Richard Koo coined in 1997 to describe Japan's economic sluggishness as society paid down debt from its ...