And putting rules in place that prevent that type of risky behavior from impacting theeconomy to the degree it has is a jobs issue and an economics issue.
The election itself showed an electorate split between not wanting to change the team that supposedly gave us a booming economy, yet wanting to repudiate thebehaviorof President Clinton.
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, for example, has argued since the most recent stock collapse that only dramatic new breakthroughs in energy and food production technologies will save theeconomy from an extended period of Malthusian zero-sum behavior.
That is exactly the kind of thinking and behaviorthe Japanese government and central bank intended to create by vowing to defeat deflation and reignite theeconomy through broad-based asset purchases known as quantitative easing.