To the deflationary spiral however now because theres a strong trend of Wage Increases, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki says its over. Joining me now is seijiro takeshita, whos a professor at the university of shizuoka. Thank you for being with us today. Talk to us first of all, this is a pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has pretty unique set of circumstances thatjapan has been pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has been through for the past generation. It is todays Declaration Calls for celebration . Yes, i would think so. Concerning the fact that for two decades, we havent seen any wage rise. Where the only country to do that. There are a lot of recurring profits, bits nine redeeming to their employees. This is, in that sense, a remarkable change. In most of the estimates, there were around 4 , but now its been reported to be around 5. 2, exceeding expectations. fist been reported to be around 5. 2, exceeding expectations. Been reported to be around 5. 2, ex
American Steel Company and said its vital that the company remain owned and operated in the states. This is a big deal and notjust politically. And not just politically. Nippon and notjust politically. Nippon steel is said to pay 14. 9 billion to acquire us giant. But politically, this is territory President Biden knows too well. He is custom self as a champion of the Working Class and called themselves the most prounion president in history. He made headlines for walking the picket line with striking order Union Workers last fall. Unionised steelworkers could land the president support in his election bid, the North American Lustrous Union and for its part, former President Donald Trump pledged to block the deal if he retakes the white house. The president of the United Steelworkers International welcome to the coal from International Welcome to the coalfrom biden on International Welcome to the coal from biden on thursday, agreeing that Foreign Ownership will leave the us more honour
let s speak to james smith, developed markets economist at ing. people are talking of a mild recession. what does that mean? quite often when we talk about recessions and the gdp numbers we think of two courses of negative growth being a technical recession. but that doesn t always feel like a recession to people. when we see a recession to people. when we see a recession we associate it with widespread job losses, people spending less money, people trying to save more, because they re uncertain about what is to come. we are not necessarily seeing that now. the fall in gdp we saw in the third quarter was small, we might see another slight fall in the fourth quarter. but it is not comparable to recessions in the past such as 2008 and the covid recession. so it is worth putting that in context. fix, worth putting that in context. a recession is two sets of three months where growth has been negative. in terms of what it means for people, what will this mean? the uk economy is
a mild recession . earlier i spoke to james smith. so we talk about recessions and the gdp numbers. us economists, we often think of two quarters of negative growth has been what we might call a technical recession. but i think it s worth remembering that doesn t always feel like a recession to people. often when we see a recession, we associate that with maybe widespread job losses, people spending a lot less money, people, you know, trying to save more because they re uncertain about what s to come. we re not necessarily seeing all of that right now. and of course, the fall in gdp we saw in the third quarter was very small, 0.i. we might see another slight fall in the fourth quarter, but it s not comparable to, you know, some of the famous recessions we ve seen in the past, 2008, of course, the covid recession as well. so it s worth putting that in context. just to let people know what recession is, it s two sets of three months. we ve seen growth negative in terms of wha
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