Recent GPD and Investment

...the data is in the details, ur, the devil is in the data...

Here are a couple graphs tied to an ongoing discussion on the SSJ (University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science) email forum.

...Mike Smitka...

Reflections on 3/11, the Tohoku Earthquake on year on

...even a disaster of this magnitude has only a transitory impact on a large, diversified economy...

...the collateral damage Japan suffered from the US financial crisis was about four times the size the economic damage it suffered from the earthquake...

Here I am on the Japanese economy on the Canadian Business News Network.

• Part I
• Me ==> Part II <==
• Part III

Mike Smitka

...without nuclear power it will be a long, hot summer throughout Japan...indeed [not a point I made on the show] deaths in this summer's heat waves will surpass those stemming directly from the Fukushima power plant disaster...

3/11 Video

Here is a short, visually nifty video reflecting on 3/11, the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and consequent secondary Fukushima tragedy. The link should work, the original is at the following URL [click to view]: http://www.onlineschools.org/japan-one-year-later/