published Mar 16th 2017, 6:00 pm, by Yuko Takeo and Nao Sano (Bloomberg) — Smaller Japanese companies may have more to offer investors than their big brothers, says Jesper Koll. The Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index has climbed 12 percent so far in 2017, outpacing the Topix index’s 3.6 percent

published Aug 22, 2017, 6:00:13 AM, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) —David Neumark, an economist at the University of California-Irvine, could safely be called a minimum-wage skeptic. Neumark has written a number of papers on the topic, all of which have found that minimum wages reduce employment by substantial amounts.