A tiny interest rate increase in Japan is a big deal

Japan’s central bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years. It’s a milestone in a long economic recovery and sign of something afoot in the Japanese economy. The World’s Carolyn Beeler talks with Simon Rabinovitch, an editor at The Economist, about what’s happening. 

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