http://blog-en.investidorprofissional.com.br Investidor Profissional (IP)'s blog: value investing across disciplines and around the globe Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog-en.investidorprofissional.com.br/2010/02/12/toyota-a-symbol-of-japans-woes/ http://blog-en.investidorprofissional.com.br/2010/02/12/toyota-a-symbol-of-japans-woes/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:07:55 +0000 IP http://www.buysiders.com/?p=718 It’s been a recurring theme in articles in the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal and now the Financial Times. But to say that “a strong Toyota is a strong Japan” must be political rhetoric. How does “fixing” Toyota (whatever that means) change a country’s demographics time-bomb or its still-rattling financial system? While there are interesting food-for-thought bits in these pieces, they all seem to give way too much importance to “planning a country” in a world where central planning (again, whatever that means) for a country of this size and relatively free market is ever less effective – if it ever was.

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