Likewise, large exchange-rate misalignments rarely correct themselves without some pain.

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The way to correct these imbalances is not through massive exchange-rate movements of the sort that might be under way, but by policy changes in both Japan and the United States.

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Bond markets still don't have faith in Wall Street--a problem that rate cuts can't correct.

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Once you correct those two numbers for the exchange rate then the pre-tax price of both are about 1% apart.

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If the lump-of-labour argument were correct, you would expect to see that a high employment rate among the wrinklies would be offset by a low employment rate among the youngsters, and vice versa.

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