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South Korea’s New President Won’t End Its Political Crisis
On June 3, a sixty-year-old maverick candidate from South Korea’s liberal Democratic Party (DPK) won the presidency in a snap ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN9h
Korea’s debt-fuelled property boom stirs echoes of Japan’s lost decades
South Korea’s household and corporate debt has ballooned to more than twice the size of its economy, reaching levels last ...
Can belated economic sanity save the US from a Liz Truss-style fiasco?
Alongside higher tariffs on steel and cars, the opening salvo against the EU was for 20 per cent tariffs, scaled back to 10 ...
The risk of a US public debt crisis – and implications for shares
By Shane Oliver, Chief Economist and Head of Investment Strategy at AMP. The key points are: US tax cuts point to ongoing budget deficits around 7% of GDP, a rising trend in already very high public ...