The question is, how much is a quadrillion?
Answer number one: it’s twice Japan’s GDP.
Answer number two: that’s how much the Japanese government now owes, after trying to lift up its economy by overspending on the back of rapidly expanding government debt.
One quadrillion dollars. More than seven-million yen per taxpayer. One-thousand trillion yen in total, owed to Japanese’s aging savers.
Here it is in zeroes:
1,000,000,000,000,000.
And here’s the really sad thing: After twenty-three years of their government trying to fix their 1990 depression by borrowing and overspending , they’re still in it. And the debt they’ve amassed in trying to fix it has just passed the fifteen-zero barrier, and it’s accelerating.
But here’s what’s really, really sad: virtually every government in the west is trying to emulate them.
Think it will end well?
[Hat tip Riko Stevens]
3 comments:
No.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao
Explains everything in a nutshell..
And yet they haven't collapsed with runaway Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe-style inflation, either. That puzzles me.
Can you educate me (politely) on this score?
Jeff
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