Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. China’s industrial rise fuels Japan’s machine tool boom Scott Foster reports that surging Chinese industrial demand is helping drive a record boom in Japanese machine tool orders, particularly at the high end where China still […]

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Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. France’s fiscal troubles shift Ukraine’s burden to Germany Diego Faßnacht reports that France’s worsening debt dynamics and rising borrowing costs are narrowing its fiscal room to sustain Ukraine support, increasing Germany’s relative importance. But Berlin’s […]

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Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Takaichi’s economic agenda runs into the bond market Scott Foster reports that Sanae Takaichi is retreating from reflationary policy as US pressure over the weak yen converges with rising JGB yields and domestic fiscal constraints. […]

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Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. German state polls yield historic defeat, familiar paralysisDiego Faßnacht reports that the CDU’s historic losses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin have deepened Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s political crisis without producing a clear alternative. Germany remains trapped […]

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