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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT 10 Jan

What does a failing economy look like when they're still making all the products for the world? Higher taxes on producers? More producers flee?

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Japans Lost decade: Toshiba and Sony did not stop pumping out cheap & good electronics en masse to the world market, job losses were not a deep crisis and yet people lost paper wealth, peoples wages stagnated and gdp stopped growing

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3 decades lost and counting

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Winnie Pooh on the brink of first bailout for banks

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Betteridge's law of headlines says "No"

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There is too much corruption to turn it around.

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It's just fundamentally the wrong question. It would be like asking if someone has enough gasoline to put out a fire.

What they probably mean, though, is if they have enough to turn the GDP metric around.

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Does China have the fiscal firepower to rescue its economy? Answer No. The GDP data is fraudulent

https://xcancel.com/mrbcyber/status/1877595402259550521

I disagree with this. China can definitely borrow enough money to bail out the banks and the shadow banks.

https://xcancel.com/Noahpinion/status/1877616785115197538

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