Coming as it does less than a year before the general election which must be held before next October the ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) is showing signs of panic.The reasons for the government's sudden unpopularity are not hard to discern.
Gerald Appel Gerald Appel of Systems and Forecasts is trying to reconcile short-term weakness and signs of longer-term reasons for bullishness.
But because of their ready response to so many internal and external factors, and because changes in them often occur without a known reason, signs of abnormality can be misleading or difficult to interpret.
The New York-based art world legend, whose Miami studio doubles as a de facto emporium in the middle of the ever-popular Wynwood Walls, is one of those rare breeds who not only sees the forest and the trees, he sees both as spectacular signs of an increasingly robust reason for being.
We search the news for signs of comfort, not for reasons.
Yet higher rates now are the wrong response to the latest signs of excess, for three reasons.First, the excesses are still small, compared with those that brought down the global economy in 2007.
This entire season has been one of salvaging a team in ruins and rebuilding for the future, and now there are signs of real improvement and reasons for fans to be optimistic.
