Thankfully, someone in this world can now track a wooden stick to emulate a lightsaber in real time, bringing one classic meme that much closer to actuality (and the promised Star Wars Kinect game not even parsec closer to release).
Japan seems to be stuck in aclassic liquidity trap: it needs lower real interest rates to boost demand, but because of deflation they are stuck painfully high.
Soirees in this storied piece of real estate are held in the classic ballroom which comes complete with chandeliers and a coat-check closet handy for keeping track of a few dozen mink coats or, say, 200 winter overcoats.
"This is classic disruptive innovation, where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create areal differentiated value, " says Staten.
This was really aclassic boom and bust cycle with primary roots in discretionary monetary policies untethered by stable money linked to something real like gold.