[quote=briansd1]Despite all the money printing and government spending, inflation did not take off in Japan. That’s the Japan lesson.
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What money printing? Japanese money supply growth averaged about 2% a year all through the 90s (and beyond). The Japan lesson, as I keep trying to point out, is not that a central bank is unable to create inflation during a credit bust — it’s that the Japanese central bank didn’t try.
