You probably have noticed how Google Traffic maps uses different shades of red to let drivers know how bad traffic is. There is light red, medium red, and what some call bloody hell red. The traffic jam below surely qualifies as bloody hell red! This shade of red is probably what power generators have been seeing over the last decade. The current wait time in the interconnection queue for new power generation or storage is over five years, up from less than two years in 2008.
In his first official meeting as the new governor of the Bank of Japan (BoJ), Kazuo Ueda maintained the ultra-loose monetary policy experiment of his predecessor Haruhiko Kuroda who spent ten years as BoJ governor.