Japan’s Central Bank: To Hike or Not to Hike, That is the Inflationary Question
The Bank of Japan decided on Thursday, March 19, that 0.75% was just the right amount of spice for their economic sushi. Ueda-san, ever the pragmatist, pointed to the global chaos-particularly the Middle East’s geopolitical tango-as the reason for keeping things steady. Oil prices, it seems, are the unruly teenagers of the economic world, causing trouble wherever they go.



