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How Japan Dealt With Their Debt Problem
Principles by Ray Dalioยท2025-07-18 13:07

I want to just give you the Japan example. Some people say, well, Japan didn't have a debt problem. Um, and um, of course, Japan had um, and still does have a lot of debt.But what did they do. What they did was um, to print a lot of money and buy those bonds. And in the process of doing that, they gave the bond holders an average of 3% lower interest rates than in the United States. And they devalued the currency by an average of 4% over this period of time.And so that caused them to lose 45% Japanese bonds ...