Shinzo Abe with closing remarks at the end of the G7 summit

  • Global economy was the biggest theme of the summit

  • Repeats the comparison between global economy now and Lehman crisis

  • There are concerns that the situation in EM economies is worsening

  • There's a risk of a prolonged slowdown in global demand

  • Global economy is facing a big risk of crisis

  • Abenomics will be deployed globally

  • Will make decision on sales tax hike before summer poll

  • There is a risk of the global economy falling into crisis if the appropriate policy response is not made

  • Abenomics is in no way failing

Does anyone else get the feeling we're being set up?

"Hey Abe, when are you going to tell them we're royally screwed?"