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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg cover image

The Bahnsen Conspiracy

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

CHAPTER

The Vulnerability of Money in Japan

The point of the Japan comparison is that you can dump out a helicopter, it's whatever, large amounts of money into an economy. But very quickly, those dollars go to, they end up in a bank account somewhere. And then the bank sits on these accounts and has two choices. They could either invest it in something where they anticipate a meaningful return on their investment or they can sit on it and wait to find a worthwhile investment for that moneyThat's what creates economic growth. You get deflation or stagflation or more-bunded economic growth when you keep pumping money into the economy but there's no good place for that money to go. That's what's happened in Japan.

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