Not good news, not only for Japan but the rest of us. Japan was once the world's strongest economies.
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Japan's economy sees a sharp fall Japan's economic output records its sharpest quarterly fall in almost seven years as the country appears to be falling into recession. Ref. Source 9 |
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Japan has had trouble since 1990 when their stock market index crashed. They did many things that the USA is doing now -- they actually lowered interest rates to 0% ! But they have been in a recession pretty much ever since that time.
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Once the world's leading economy now here is what Japan declares:
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Japan forecasts no growth in 2009 Japan forecasts zero growth for the next fiscal year as the Bank of Japan cuts interest rates to only 0.1 percent Ref. Source 9 |
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