Japan suffers the universal results of high taxation and the wide variety of social problems that follow. No longer is one income enough to make ends meet. Government regulations make it difficult for new industries to compete against the established giants and most industries behave like state-owned enterprises.
Jeff Deist and Marc Abela discuss the Bank of Japan's failed 25 year program of monetary stimulus, and the impossibility of "Abenomics".
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