{"id":127705,"date":"2025-11-07T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127705\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:37:18","slug":"japans-takaichi-shifts-economic-policy-with-looser-budget-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/127705\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Takaichi Shifts Economic Policy With Looser Budget Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signaled her determination to ramp up the active use of fiscal policy to power economic growth by dropping an annual budget-balancing goal that favors financial orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Speaking in the lower house of parliament Friday, Takaichi said the government\u2019s long-held target of achieving a primary balance surplus will no longer be reviewed on a single-year basis. The primary balance refers to the difference between government spending and revenue after factoring out debt-servicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signaled her determination to ramp up the active use of fiscal policy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[43071,72,74937,1322,18478,14020,4990,113,1523,65449,61,21326,60,582,25204],"class_list":["post-127705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bank-of-japan-the","tag-business","tag-daiwa-securities-group-inc","tag-debt","tag-economic-growth","tag-economic-policy","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-government-bonds","tag-ie","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-sanae-takaichi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}