The 'Godot' Recession.

Iran strikes it rich.

1. Japan will cease to exist if it can’t slow a fall in its birth rate that threatens to wreck the social safety net and economy, according to an adviser to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. “If we go on like this, the country will disappear,” Masako Mori said in an interview in Tokyo after Japan announced on Feb. 28 the number of babies born last year slum…