WEST SHOWS WORRYING SIGNS OF ‘JAPANISATION’
– RICHARD MILNE, FINANCIAL TIMES, AUGUST 19, 2011
TURNING JAPANESE – DEBT, DEFAULT AND THE WEST’S NEW POLITICS OF PARALYSIS
– THE ECONOMIST, COVER STORY, JULY 30TH – AUGUST 5TH 2011
AMERICA FLIRTS WITH A FATE LIKE JAPAN’S
– CLIVE CROOK, FINANCIAL TIMES, JUNE 19, 2011
HOW TO AVOID OUR OWN LOST DECADE
– LAWRENCE SUMMERS, FINANCIAL TIMES, JUNE 12, 2011
THE U.S. IS CLOSER TO JAPANESE-STYLE OUTCOME TODAY THAN AT ANYTIME IN HISTORY
– JAMES BULLARD, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST. LOUIS, JULY 29, 2010
AVOIDING A JAPANESE DECADE
– EDITORIAL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, JANUARY 3, 2010
IS THE US ECONOMY TURNING JAPANESE?
– CHRISTOPHER WOOD, EQUITY STRATEGIST, CLSA LTD HONG KONG, NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 26, 2009
WILL WE BECOME ZIMBABWE OR WILL WE BE JAPAN?
– MERLE HAZARD, COUNTRY SINGER, LYRICS OF “INFLATION OR DEFLATION”, 2009
WHAT HAS JAPAN’S “LOST DECADE” TO TEACH US?
– MARTIN WOLF, FINANCIAL TIMES, FEBRUARY 17, 2009
WE SAW THIS HAPPEN IN JAPAN IN THE 1990S, WHERE THEY DID NOT ACT BOLDLY AND SWIFTLY ENOUGH AND, AS A CONSEQUENCE, THEY SUFFERED WHAT WAS CALLED THE LOST DECADE
– PRESIDENT OBAMA, IN HIS FIRST PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE, FEBRUARY 9, 2009
EVERY TIME I HEAR A POLICY MAKER SAY ‘WE ARE NOT JAPAN’, I FEEL IT’S MORE LIKE JAPAN
– PROF. KEN ROGOFF, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, QUOTED IN THE ECONOMIST, JANUARY 10, 2009
WITH EACH PASSING DAY, THE US IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE JAPANESE
– PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
WE MIGHT BE DRIFTING INTO A JAPANESE-LIKE SITUATION
– HILLARY CLINTON, QUOTED IN WALL STREET JOURNAL, MARCH 26, 2008
JAPAN’S HARSH LESSONS COULD EASE THE PAIN OF TODAY’S CRISIS
– RICHARD KOO, CHIEF ECONOMIST, NOMURA SECURITIES, FINANCIAL TIMES, JANUARY 24, 2008
ONE OF THE TALKING POINTS OF RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN THE REMARKABLE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE POST-BUBBLE BEHAVIOR OF US EQUITIES (AND BONDS) AND WHAT HAPPENED IN JAPAN ROUGHLY TEN YEARS EARLIER.
– JONATHAN WILMOT, CREDIT SUISSE, GLOBAL PERFORMANCE MONITOR, FEBRUARY 23, 2004
JAPAN AND THE US: BUBBLE, BUBBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE…..FOREBODING COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN ARE GAINING RENEWED CURRENCY
– DAVID LEONHARDT, THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 2, 2002
ASIDE FROM THE THEN RECENT EXPERIENCE OF JAPAN, ONLY HISTORY BOOKS AND MUSTY ARCHIVES GAVE US [AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE] CLUES TO THE APPROPRIATE STANCE FOR POLICY
– ALAN GREENSPAN, JACKSON HOLE SYMPOSIUM, AUGUST 30, 2002
IS US 2001 JAPAN 1991? COULD THE BURST US BUBBLE LEAD LIKE JAPAN’S TO A DECADE IN THE DOLDRUMS
– BRIAN READING, LOMBARD STREET RESEARCH, APRIL 17, 2001
IN THIS REGARD [SITUATION OF US], IT MAY BE INSTRUCTIVE TO CONSIDER THE EXPERIENCE OF JAPAN IN THE 1980S…THESE CONDITIONS SEEM SIMILAR TO THE RECENT US EXPERIENCE.
– BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS, 70TH ANNUAL REPORT, JUNE 5, 2000