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Japan has got 99 problems but investment isn’t one

PM Takaichi is misdiagnosing what’s holding back Japan’s economy. This means that rather than boosting Japan’s long-term growth potential, her policies may instead unleash a wave of wasteful public spending that would lift inflation and put upward pressure on longer-term interest rates.

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