Recent comments by Joshua Ioji Konov

• Should Germany Exit the Euro?

  Even in principal Mr. Soros is correct to call for alleviation of the current austerity policies, for quantitative easing and pro growth policies, he underestimates the dysfunctionallity of the European Union itself, the ideologically founded economics fiscal and monetary policies of VAT, subsidies, and oligopolies that benefit the very few and in many countries do not protect the consumers, policies that in the conditions of expanding globalization, rising productivity, and the ongoing outsourcing and moving of manufacturing, and the China's industrialization are pro-business cyclical. The Euro's strength is an extra burthen on many EU economies, too. However, cheap financing of struggling economies would not help them improve…. The microeconomic structures and monetary and fiscal policies, the consumer protection, and etc are the issues, indeed.

• The Promise of Abenomics

  The PM Abe actions are revolution in economics, whereas instead of waiting economic activities to happen, they are provoking and promoting such with the connecting their monetary, fiscal and stimulus policies to the inflation (not to the debt as current geniuses of economics hold on). PM Abe's economics is one of the future prompted by the globalization and rising productivity, and China's overproduction. However, such actions would succeed if the beneficiaries are the small and medium businesses and investors that would boost the real market competition, instead of further concentration of capital into the big transnationals and investors..

• Germany’s Choice

  The 20+% VAT, the Low Taxes, the majority of Subsidies in the EU consequent into a trickle-down approach of economics benefiting the have by taking from the have not, which approach could had worked fine in the past but it is pro-cyclical and counterproductive in the very presence of very congested globalized marketplace of high productivity and industrialized China. Moreover, the German government senses the dysfunctionality of many European economies and mistakenly insist on such austerity to fix the system, however the austerity measures are pro-cyclical too; but it is highly improbable of just monetary policies to solve the puzzle... some macroeconomic changes are needed, indeed...

• The Promise of Abenomics

  Excellent comprehension. however the Prime Minister ABE's effort will have a positive long-run effect only if the transmission-ability and market security of the Japanese market could accommodate the extra liquidity and fiscal stimulus policies, other words, if the trickle-down economics is used by the result could be disastrous, but if some innovative methods of enhancing fairness of competition to promote small business and investors in a free market competition the results of His policies could be very positive for Japan.....

• Europe’s Political Stress Tests

  An excellent observation... adding to it is that the pro-libertarian EU economics continues to trickle-up capital into the very few whereas expecting the trickle-down effect. which seemingly does not work..., the subsidies, the flat taxes, the VAT hurt small business and investors to the point of diminishing demand and consumption, other words cutting the branch under their own feet, which plus the austerity measures is a measure for disaster...