Yup.

Nothing like the romance of a decade-long crushing deflationary period, that sucks the life out of your economy and your country’s soul.

When did their stock market hit its highs?

Oh well, we can probably blame it all on their bad Karma:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

It sure is good America has such great Karma built up with all our good deeds, yeah, sure. We brought “democracy” to all those Afghanis and Iraqis!

*cough*
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