Event Detail
Noda's Mistaken Economic Priorities
Registration/Cancellation Deadline: Fri, Jun 22, 2012
Speaker: Richard Katz (Editor, The Oriental Economist Report)
Hosting Committee(s): Banking and Finance
Venue: Tokyo American Club MAP
Member Fee: ¥4900
Guest Fee: ¥5900
Extras: Meal included
Prime Minister Noda has had three economic priorities: raising the consumption tax, raising the consumption tax and raising the consumption tax (with the restart of just two nuclear reactors as a fourth). Not only is the consumption tax the wrong tax at the wrong time, but Noda has totally ignored the primary issue affecting both the budget deficit and a host of other issues: raising Japan's growth rate. The notion that Japan could be the next Greece is not economic analysis; it is a scary sales pitch being used to sell a deeply unpopular tax.
Richard Katz is Co-Editor of The Oriental Economist Report (TOE). He is also the author of two books on Japan's economic travails. The first is entitled "Japan: The System That Soured--The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle." The second book is entitled "Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival." Mr. Katz's essays have been published by Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, The International Economy Magazine, Challenge and The American Prospect.
VENUE: Tokyo American Club, Manhattan (B2)
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NOTE: This meeting is OFF THE RECORD
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