Japan’s stimulus efforts come up short
There’s news that despite aggressive efforts to pump money into the Japanese economy, the effort isn’t going that well. The Japanese government today reported the economy there October to December grew at an annualized rate of just 1 percent, much lower than forecast. BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes joined us from Tokyo to help digest the news.
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