Economic Trends: The Fed’s Era of Easy Money Is Ending

Economic Trends By NEIL IRWIN March 13, 2017 When the Federal Reserve made its first tentative step toward ending its era of extraordinary monetary intervention, it earned a nickname: the taper tantrum. Global financial markets metaphorically bawled like a...

Japan’s Foreign ‘Trainees’ Work in a Place Trump May Envy

By JONATHAN SOBLE February 10, 2017 GIFU, Japan — Liu Hongmei was fed up with her job at a Shanghai clothing factory, where she worked long hours for little pay. So three years ago, she quit to take a job in Japan. A garment factory there promised Ms....