Monetary policy articles
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Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting on March 18 and 19, 2024
The Bank had been conducting market operations, including purchases of Japanese government bonds (JGBs), in accordance with the guideline for market operations and the guideline for conduct of yield curve control, both of which were decided at the previous meeting on January 22 and 23, 2024.7 With these market operations, long-term interest rates had been at levels consistent with the Bank's
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Bank of Japan keeps monetary policy unchanged, sees slightly higher inflation in fiscal 2024
The BOJ did not comment specifically on the yen, which has steadily weakened since the last BOJ meeting
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Foreign Policy Splits the Parties
In 2024, foreign policy doesn’t pit Republicans against Democrats so much as it pits Republicans against Republicans and Democrats against Democrats. For Joe Biden’s party, Israel is the fault line, with Democrats split between supporters of the Jewish State and those of Palestinian sympathies. For the party of Donald Trump, the internal conflict is over Ukraine, and the bitterness of the battle risks costing Mike Johnson his speakership. These crises in the Middle East and on NATO’s frontier...