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If it does, then, like Japan, it is likely to suffer a lost decade.
ECONOMIST: The credit crunch
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Some are now talking openly of a Lost Decade, much like Japan's lost years after its great property crash at the end of the 1980s.
BBC: Economy: bonds, austerity, debt and the Age of Plenty
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He is a highly intelligent, roundish bald man a Harvard-educated economist whose analysis of Japan helped that country end its Lost Decade in the early 2000s.
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And, alas, a stable giant that could be playing a supportive role, Japan, appears to be suffocating itself with more of the lame governance that lost it the decade of the 1990s.
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