{"id":12514,"date":"2013-11-12T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=12514"},"modified":"2013-11-12T06:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:13:56","slug":"japans-debt-and-abe-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/japans-debt-and-abe-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Debt and Abe-Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Abe appears to be increasing Japanese competitiveness and its total share of global demand, but not by increasing Japanese productivity, which is the high road to growth, but rather by reducing the real Japanese household income share of what is produced. Japan (like Germany and China have done over the past decade) is attempting to increase employment by reducing wages, and this means that its workers will be able to purchase a declining share of what they produce. This effectively means Japan will be growing at the expense of its trading partners. As the Japanese become less able to consume all they produce, the excess must be exported abroad. \u00a0Will Debt Derail Abe’s Economics?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Abenomics\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Abe appears to be increasing Japanese competitiveness and its total share of global demand, but not by increasing Japanese productivity, which is the high road to growth, but rather by reducing the real Japanese household income share of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t