How The Economy Of Japan Could Predict The Next Decade
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The Third Biggest Reason Why Japan's Economy Isn't Growing at All
It is incredibly taboo to ask for a raise in japan. Disposable incomes have remained almost totally stagnant since the nineties. Japanese companies have been known to broadcast ads to formally apologize for raising their prices by as little as ten yen, the equivalent of around ten cents. Japan has a g d p of just over five trillion us. Dollars which would be impressive by itself, but even more so when you consider that it' had this impressive figure for nearly 30 years now. It's also why some of the greatest economists in the world are totally baffled by how it behaves.
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