It’s time for Shinzo Abe to act

Japan's prime minister is determined to revive the country's economy, but he has left too much of the hard lifting to the Bank of Japan. It’s time he took responsibility.
September 22, 2016

Japan’s central bank once again tried a series of clever policy changes this week. It pledged to target the ten-year Japanese government bond yield. It also upended conventional wisdom — and the meaning of words — by making its inflation target something it wants to overshoot as a matter of course.

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