Rather, low interest rates, an export boom and a business environment in which managers are scarcely accountable to shareholders may have generated too much of the stuff.

ECONOMIST: Japan's pain

Lord Inglewood, of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), called it "a rare survivor".

BBC: Rare Cropsey landscape in export bar

With a heavily export-led development model, the feeling was that it was in China's interest to prop up the dollar system.

BBC: Mr Osborne and China's long road to a global currency