In the broad sense, surely not, if only because of demography: the Japanese combine a low birth rate with a deep cultural aversion to immigration, so the future role of Japan will be severely constrained by a shortage of Japanese. But something very odd is happening on the short- to medium-term macroeconomic front. For the past three years macro policy all across the advanced world has been domina
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