Yesterday, the Liberal Democratic Party indicated it would support Kuroda and Nakaso, but it will vote against the arch-dove Iwata.

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Another former U.K. rate-setter and arch-dove, David Blanchflower, has pointed out that even if nominal-GDP targeting was a good idea in theory, it is a bad idea in practice because nominal GDP is hard to measure and prone to large revisions.

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