Politics and Government – Page 93

A Crisis of Confidence Is Gripping China’s Economy

China’s economy, which once seemed unstoppable, is plagued by a series of problems, and a growing lack of faith in the future is verging on despair.

By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Claire Fu

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Turkey’s Central Bank Raises Rates to Near Two-Decade High

The bigger-than-expected rate increase, to 25 percent, is aimed at curbing stubbornly high inflation that exceeded 80 percent last year.

By Aaron Boxerman

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How China Made Its Housing Crisis Worse

Years of inattention to building an adequate safety net for seniors, the jobless and others in financial stress have left Chinese consumers afraid to spend.

By Keith Bradsher

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Can Shrinking Be Good for Japan? A Marxist Best Seller Makes the Case.

Kohei Saito says the country should seize this moment of demographic and economic challenge to reinvent itself through “degrowth communism.”

By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno

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