I’m doing a bit of work on Abenomics, which will surface in a week or so. One thing I discovered along the way is that nobody much likes any of the existing measures of inflation expectations, as this New York Fed post by Mandel and Barnes explains. In particular, the Japanese market in inflation-protected securities is considered too thin to rely on. Mandel and Barnes, building off work by Goldma
Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) software used to route messages between computers on the Internet. The attack code was released Wednesday by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit. Internet security experts warn that this code may give criminals a way to launch virtually undetectable phishing attacks against Internet user
By Amy O’Leary May 21, 2013 5:34 pm May 21, 2013 5:34 pm Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as a “word of the year” in 2012, and Tuesday night, its inventor, Steve Wilhite, will be accepting a lifetime achievement award at The W
Let it not be said that the scribblings of academic economists have no effect. Some of us have been urging the Bank of Japan to get truly aggressive and adventurous on monetary policy — and it’s happening! And it only took 15 years. Seriously, this is very good news. Japan is finally, finally making a real effort to escape from its deflation trap. We should all hope it succeeds. Housekeeping note:
January 26, 2012 11:31 am January 26, 2012 11:31 am I’m being asked for comments on the Fed’s low-rates-until-2014 announcement. It’s a step in the right direction — and it has had a visible effect on markets, pushing long-term rates down, which is all good. But why is the inflation target only 2 percent? Actually, I understand why; the inflation hawks are still a powerful force that must be appea
By Tara Parker-Pope May 10, 2010 5:07 pm May 10, 2010 5:07 pm Why do some men and women cheat on their partners while others resist the temptation? To find the answer, a growing body of research is focusing on the science of commitment. Scientists are studying everything from the biological factors that seem to influence marital stability to a person’s psychological response after flirting with a
By Nick Bilton April 12, 2010 3:01 pm April 12, 2010 3:01 pm Associated Press Eric Schmidt of Google has said his company is working on a tablet computer. As Ashlee Vance and I report in a Monday article, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Microsoft and a suite of other companies are hard at work on products that they hope will be iPad killers. Apple will most likely swat at most of these companies like a sho
October 21, 2009 10:09 am October 21, 2009 10:09 am This article in today’s Times stresses the rise in government debt, which is true enough. But it’s important to realize that the bond market is conspicuously not worried. Thus, when the article says For jittery investors, Japan’s rising sea of debt is the stuff of nightmares: the possibility of an eventual sovereign debt crisis, where the country
By Charles Hayden May 11, 2009 5:35 pm May 11, 2009 5:35 pm Part of what we do here is monitor how readers are using NYTimes.com. All activity at the Web site is logged, but the overwhelming volume of data makes analyzing it difficult. Recently we’ve been exploring the on-demand storage and computation tools offered by Amazon Web Services, along with an open-source toolkit called Apache Hadoop. Th
A quick note on Keiichiro Kobayashi’s post on Japan’s lessons for the crisis: I have considerable sympathy for his views. But when he says Only after Resona Bank had been temporarily placed under government control, the IRCJ had been established, and Japanese banks had embarked on an all-out effort to dispose of bad loans, did stock prices finally pick up and people come to embrace the recovery. U
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