Where To Stream Newsroom Tokyo Season 2015 Episode 50
Price of Progress
- Aired June 12, 2015
- 45 Min
One of the biggest policy challenges facing Japanese leaders: inflation. They're determined to get it going. They say generating a healthy climate of rising prices is essential for reviving the economy. It's been more than 2 years since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his program to slay deflation. A key objective from the start was to push down the value of the yen. Recent data shows this strategy is having an effect. A weaker yen has pushed up the cost of imports, and that trend is now...