Richard Jerram
Richard Jerram
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I think the real question is whether growth in 2001 is positive or negative. And the way things are going, it's looking increasingly likely there's going to be a negative number.
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Japan is forecast to be the fastest-growing G7 economy over the next two years. The biggest contribution to growth is coming from private sector demand.
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As the capital position of banks improves, so does their ability to take balance sheet risk, which should improve credit provision. The growth rate is slow, but is accelerating and should play a more constructive role in the economy.
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I'm looking for faster growth on the basis that the improvement in employment and wages is going to continue, ... It looks as if just about everything that could go right is going right with the economic outlook.
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The ministry of finance is clearly prepared to sacrifice one year's growth in order to be able to begin to reconstruct the budget -- and cut the budget deficit..
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It has always worked in the past. It's always been a turning point in the economy when measures have been taken to bail out the financial system.
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Overall, we feel that views on the economy have probably become excessively negative in recent months on the basis of the performance of two economic indicators: exports and industrial production.
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It is difficult to find any part of the economic puzzle that would lead you to be less confident about the full-year 2006 outlook than you were six months ago.
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Some people are thinking that is a little bit too small to get the banking system back on its feet.
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We think the U.S. could expand by around 3% while Japan's economy could grow somewhere between 3.5% and 4%.
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Three months ago, the debate was whether the economy was still declining or going sideways. Now the debate is whether the economy is going sideways or whether it is improving.
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We're seeing an improvement in output, which seems to be driven by both the export side and the domestic demand side, and we're seeing a gradual diminution of deflation.
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He doesn't really have an economic reform policy. He's not really about to get tough in the economic sphere,
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We woke up and America was down pretty hard. Then we had a fairly big construction company go bust.