Will the Bank of Japan have to start tightening soon?

Japan’s economy has performed well recently and inflation is set to rise sharply soon. But the spike in inflation won’t last and, with inflation expectations no higher now than when the Bank of Japan launched Quantitative and Qualitative Easing, any talk of policy tightening will prove premature.

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