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Who says this?

• forkLding 4y ago
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/japans-fate-could-be-everyone-elses-too/2019/06/12/de70af18-8d20-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/japans-fate-could-be...
  • tjr225 4y ago
    Oh ok. So one person(maybe) at the Washington Post. I guess you’re technically correct.
    • bawolff 4y ago
      Here's another quote from 1989: > last stop before the planet Mars: In Japan, the world’s most technologically sophisticated society, the future has already happened, says Peter Popham https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/01/24/future-has-arrived/?amp=1 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/01/24/future-has-arrived/...
• bawolff 4y ago
  It was more a thing people said in the 80s
  • tjr225 4y ago
    That was forty years ago…
• lkrubner 4y ago
  Regarding economics, the economist Paul Krugman was the first to say it, in an essay in 1994, when he suggested that the slowdown in Japan might reveal what was going to happen to all other advanced nations. It was an idea he then developed over several years, in a series of essays, and then finally when his predictions came true, he came out with a book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Return-Depression-Economics-Crisis-2008/dp/0393071014/ https://www.amazon.com/Return-Depression-Economics-Crisis-20...