Abe’s strategy is working in the short-term. The businessmen are creating monopolies in their industries and will continue to rake in profits as their people age, die and are replaced. But hopefully soon Abe will be forced to answer the most important question of all: does honor have a price? The most recurring story Westerners get about Japan is that their society is old and dying. The latest... 

US presidential candidate Ted Cruz failed to disclose that he had borrowed as much as $1 million from Goldman Sachs to finance his 2012 Senate run, while he was publicly denouncing the giant bank as an agent for “crony capitalism,” according to a new report. Cruz and his wife Heidi, who worked at Goldman, took out a large low-interest loan from the investment bank and another from Citibank, without...