David Cohen Dependent Quotations

You can argue that it's in everybody's interest to maintain a positive spin, but the point is the fundamentals in Indonesia and across the region are healthier than the case in 1997-98, particularly with most of the countries running current account surpluses and not dependent on borrowings from overseas.

Consumer spending, together with domestic investment spending, are leaving the Japanese economy a little less dependent on exports. Over the past decade, Japan has been notoriously unable to develop a self-sustaining recovery. We're gradually getting out of that rut.