Japan: Up or Down?

Chris Beggy chrisb at eden.com
Tue Jun 15 18:55:15 PDT 1999


Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
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>
> Stiglitz and Krugman are both selling snake oil (quoting the Japanese) and are
> merely doing the "if A does not work, how about B or C or A+C?" They haven't a
> clue on how to make Asia recover. The fact is Asia will not begin to recover
> before the US economy stops exporting deflation to feed its own bubble. The

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> beginning of global recovery will come after the US economy crashes. The longer
> the US bubble hold, the more severe the global pain when it comes. And if the
> pain is severe enough, neoliberalism may well be the casualty.
>

I haven't heard this before, and it sounds interesting. In the 1980's a criticism of Japan was that it was exporting unemployment to its trading partners. How does the US export deflation?

Chris



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