Magazine-Cover Curse Takes on New Meaning in Asia
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March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Will Shinzo Abe’s plan to reviveJapan suffer the magazine-cover curse? Might Benigno Aquino meetthe same fate in the Philippines?
What both leaders have in common is everyone slapping the“-nomics” suffix onto their growth strategies. “Abenomics”has excited investors, not to mention the pundit class, with itsaim of ending 15 years of deflation. The same is true of“Aquinomics” in a country long deemed the sick man of Asia,now an investment darling.