The cause of Japan’s lost decades was not the appreciation of the yen that followed the Plaza Accord. It was the misguided attempts of the Japanese authorities to resist that appreciation.
As US mulls new Plaza Accord, China should learn from Japan’s fate… but not the lesson it thinks
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