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Japan’s Looming Bank Crisis: A Half Trillion Dollars in Non-Performing Loans?
Congressional Research Service: CRS Report for Congress, No.
94-667E
August 19, 1994
-ti- Japan’s Looming Bank Crisis: A Half Trillion Dollars in
Non-Performing Loans?
Dick K. Nanto
Specialist in Industry and Trade Economics Division
This Report is 1964 words long
Source: http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs/permalink/meta-crs-108
SUMMARY
Japan’s top 21 banks have reported Y13.6 trillion (US$136 billion)in non-performing loans, but experts consider the true figure to bein the range [...]
What is Inflation?
In economics, inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. The term “inflation” once referred to increases in the money supply (monetary inflation); however, economic debates about the relationship between money supply and price levels have led to its primary use [...]
WTO Economy
This post will be a short description of what is WTO, what have they done by now, why and how long they exist and few other facts about WTO Economy.
First of all, what is WTO? WTO stands for World Trade Organization and is global (international) organization that was established in order to controll or at [...]
IMF Economy
This will be a short description of IMF. What is IMF? What does it do? What should it do? Many people do not know what IMF is, even though there is no person on this planet whos life would not be affected by IMF. IMF stands for International Monetary Found. IMF economy is also [...]
Demand for Money Theory
Also known as liquidity preference, demand for money theory deals with the desire to hold money rather than other forms of wealth (for example stocks and shares).
It is particularly associated with the work of English economist John Maynard Keynes (1882-1946).
Keynes distinguished three motives for holding money: the transaction motive (to meet day-to-day needs); the speculative [...]