History of postwar Japan Economy

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1. Quite a bit of propaganda in this. Also many economist do not buy this version of events with regards to the Asian Tigers or Japan. The idea that the IMF secretly engineers economic collapses and then swoops in taking control is incredibly conspiratorial. The idea that the Fed engineered the great depression in the US again is a fringe conspiracy theory.
   
   The idea that the ECB can order any central bank in Europe to do anything is silly.
   
   Looking into the makers of this though showed what I expected to find. Art majors who are all about 'social justice' and think capitalism is rather evil. Fans of Occupy Wall Street, and want massive taxes and movement of wealth in private sector shifted to the state so it can be redistributed in a 'fair' way.
   
   What they are basically railing against in this doc is the idea of consumption driven economies. If you look at the GDP formula it is Y = C + I + G + X. C is consumption, I is business investment, G is government spending, and X is exports - imports. In the US close to 70% of GDP is consumption. What guys like the makers of this documentary envision is where government spending would = 70% of GDP.
   
   The great 'evil' structural reforms that they say was the purpose of the IMF or the Fed or the BoJ was to re-balance economies from being investment lead to being consumption lead. This is what the US did in the great depression, this is what Japan did in the 90s/2000s, and this is what the Asian Tigers did. It is becoming increasingly obvious that China needs to make this shift, as they are becoming over leveraged just as those other economies did.
   
   Anyways, just wanted to give some context to what this doc is about.
2. Title should be "History of post-postwar Japan Economy".
3. Interesting how the protocol for the new economic reform "read like a wishlist by [the Americans]". This type of shadowy financial enslavement via the obscure and unchecked power of central banks is scary. I've lived in Japan for 9 years and can tell you Japan never recovered from this. Although it is said their economic growth has been "stagnant" I see it more as the people as a whole have simply realized moderate and stable economic activity is preferable to the consequences of what happens when people go apeshit insane about getting as much fake money as they can as fast as possible. And good for them. In a way, their culture, which is based on group activity and sharing, has saved them. The modern global economy is a ponzi scheme based on stealing as many free resources from the environment as possible, dominating the control and finance of their reorganization into products and then enslaving populations to "pay" for their own survival via a vast and hysterical political-economic-media machine. And every few years this Ponzi scheme resets itself. And every time it comes as a "surprise" and a "shock" while the sick fucks running the show consistently get richer and more distant from civil society every single time. Despite "specialists" saying otherwise I've never seen any evidence to convince me that it is just that: a ponzi scheme based on corporate socialism and civil capitalism.
4. Wow! Just complete & utter Wow!!
   
   Sounds like some people need to go to prison, and others to a firing squads wall, for conspiracy to commit mass international financial collapse & fraud...
5. 30:12 random otter. WTF?
6. All this only shows how complex is the science of financial technology and the power of central banks which hitherto i did not know.
7. EXCELLENT !!!!!
8. Rothschilds
9. Oh. My. Shinto Shrine.
10. This is faceless communistic people that want power, plain and simple, just like communist leaders fat cats!
11. They switch from investing in weapons, to consumer goods, can you imagine what america would look like if they did something like this, $100 billion in spending money every month, to invest in the country.
12. >>-------------------------> Wow!
13. Surplus Capital gives people the power to subjugate other people. This has always been the main objective of Lazy Faire economics.
14. A lot I could say here, but at this point I'll just say, brace for impact, because this central banking scheme can't go on indefinitely.
    Ignore the ignorant, and prepare.
    Bread, bullets, band aids, bullion, Bitcoin.
15. quite depressing
16. sounds familiar ....
17. Fascinating
18. HORY SHEIT, IMF ARE REAL SATAN. MAHATHIR WE NEED BRAVE MAN LIKE YOU
19. smash the bank
20. Excellent, explains so much. Thank you for posting.