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JAPAN AS WORLD ECONOMIC LEADER?

Eamonn Fingleton in a guest article at Prudent Bear offers the very interesting argument that Japan is not at all the economic basket case the developed world seems to wishfully think it is, that in fact it's just the opposite: that this traditonally secretive society is setting the pace for both the developed and developing worlds...From what I'm seeing here, I would tend to agree.