“I will ensure Japan emerges from deflation,” he said, promising to accelerate Kishida’s policies aimed at boosting household income through wage hikes."

I haven’t seen anything that suggests Ishiba is an inflation hawk. And as former defense minister, he’s going to accelerate Japan’s defense spending further and counter Chinese threat in the region. Which will boost economy.

Japan has struggled with deflation for decades. Inflation has been a welcome development for them. With an aging population and low birth rates, they aren’t in danger of heading into hyper inflation.

Basically trying to bring Ukraine back to stone age. Ukraine needs to do the same to Russia. War is fucked.

He’s plainly asking for Russian interference on his behalf.

The whole thing needs rules and regulations. It’s lacking.

This will force the hand of US and EU to sanction China one way or another. Of course diplomatic solutions can be worked out. What it will be has yet to be seen. As you’re aware, China has tried to avoid supplying arms directly to Russia until this move. It maybe that Chinese will manufacture the drones in Russia to avoid being seen as exporting arms.

NIL mess continues.

Time to put sanctions on China. This would be interesting.

If OU can’t get any traction on offense in 2nd half, this game is done.

Freshman had lively legs. Let’s give him a chance to cook in 2nd half.

It’s innovative. It’s a great idea. A fantastic way to invest public money in housing. But it has to be done in conjuction with other measures that stimulates housing development.

I think the new additions to B1G will help evolve its football playstyle even further. Until the last 2 years B10 football wasn’t the most entertaining to watch. Now the additions of PAC-12 teams will test the old schools on both sides of the ball. As a neutral viewer, it’s a positive. As for the college athletics, that’s another matter all togther.

Pac-12 lives! Sorta.

Looks up opponent for the weekend: UL Monroe. who? Oh scheduled win.

It is worth noting that China is supplying arms to both sides of the conflict.

LMAO @ “tech” company. They are trying to get higher valuation. I don’t see that happening.

His brother.

This I believe is an intended effect of Chinese government’s shift away from depending on housing investment as primary factor in driving growth - to bring home affordability back as home ownership has become a deterrent to marriages and child-rearing, both in severe decline and the biggest long term strategic threat to China.

The laws were passed under conservatives weren’t they? Tells you all there’s you need to know. All they care about are the rich and corporations which are owned by the rich.

We’ve needed a better industrial policy/strategy for quite sometime now, way before Trudeau happened. We have been falling behind in productivity, in investment in research and IP, all leading indicators of creation of wealth and prosperity for decades. We just can’t rely on oil and natural resource booms to keep us afloat economically. None of the prior administrations have brought that, and Trudeau’s hasn’t got that vision. Neither does PP quite frankly. He hasn’t said jack that talks to how we’re going to be more competitive, nor does he have the brains for it.