H.P. Hovercraft posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Clark Nova posted:

I wish the Pictures for Sad Children artist hadn't deleted their entire online presence after a meltdown They were such a relentlessly negative rear end in a top hat they felt like a kindred spirit

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This eye-opening book offers a disturbing new look at Japan's post-war economy and the key factors that shaped it. It gives special emphasis to the 1980s and 1990s when Japan's economy experienced vast swings in activity. According to the author, the most recent upheaval in the Japanese economy is the result of the policies of a central bank less concerned with stimulating the economy than with its own turf battles and its ideological agenda to change Japan's economic structure. The book combines new historical research with an in-depth behind-the-scenes account of the bureaucratic competition between Japan's most important institutions: the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan. Drawing on new economic data and first-hand eyewitness accounts, it reveals little known monetary policy tools at the core of Japan's business cycle, identifies the key figures behind Japan's economy, and discusses their agenda. The book also highlights the implications for the rest of the world, and raises important questions about the concentration of power within central banks.

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Between 1985 and 1989 stocks rose 240% and land prices 245%. By the end of the '80s, the value of the garden surrounding the Imperial Palace in Central Tokyo was worth as much as the entire state of California.

Muscle Wizard posted:

ya didnt he take a bunch of kickstarter money for a book of the comics and then just burnt all the books and pocketed the cash.

Accretionist posted:

Documentary about Japan's big bubble. Good so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-IZZxyb1GI

So far, it's pitching that Japan's bubble was a liberalization ploy. Driven by ideology, the Central Bank wanted an immediate hard pivot. They used new money to inflate/crash the economy ().

Based on the book of the same name, Amazon description:


Fun data point:

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He has proposed the "Quantity Theory of Credit", or "Quantity Theory of Disaggregated Credit", which disaggregates credit creation used for the real economy (GDP transactions) on the one hand, and financial transactions on the other hand.[1] In 1995, he proposed a new monetary policy to swiftly deal with banking crises, which he called 'Quantitative Easing', published in the Nikkei. [2] He also first used the expression "QE2" in public, referring to the need to implement 'true quantitative easing' as an expansion in credit creation.[3] His 2001 book 'Princes of the Yen' was a number one general bestseller in Japan. In 2014 he published the first empirical evidence that each bank creates credit when it issues a new loan. [4]

fr0id posted:

imagine telling someone in the pictures thread to stop posting pictures lol. just please add some context so people don’t go insane treating your photo like the voynich manuscript.



it’s a picture of a spacecraft from a rural shack

fr0id posted:

imagine telling someone in the pictures thread to stop posting pictures lol. just please add some context so people don’t go insane treating your photo like the voynich manuscript.



it’s a picture of a spacecraft from a rural shack

Muscle Wizard posted:

yes lol one of the most famous photographs in contemporary american history is about the same level as the dude posting bw shots of boring city streets.

fr0id posted:

imagine telling someone in the pictures thread to stop posting pictures lol. just please add some context so people don’t go insane treating your photo like the voynich manuscript.



it’s a picture of a spacecraft from a rural shack

Clark Nova posted:

I wish the Pictures for Sad Children artist hadn't deleted their entire online presence after a meltdown They were such a relentlessly negative rear end in a top hat they felt like a kindred spirit

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

samantonio posted:

lmao

I hear ya. I'm just pointing out some of the hypocrisies that are going on in here which I feel is very C-SPAM at heart. A probe came down for me laughing at hapsby's post on creating a funny C-SPAM game. I was later told it wasn't about me laughing but that other people didn't like that I was posting pictures. In the picture thread. Later I posted a picture of a happy couple on valentines day and got a probe for it because "too many pearls". Then I was told that the reason was not true, just the mod's way of trying to come up with some words for a reason. The true reason, they said, was that I wasn't providing enough context with the photos I posted, wasn't staying true to the theme of the thread which was politics and hadn't let others know that I was a photographer. So when the probe was lifted I posted one photo of a homeless man, gave context, placed it in the proper theme and let people know I was a photographer was once again railed against, this time I was writing too many words in the picture thread. And when people talked about me and I responded I was told I was constantly talking about myself. lmfao there is literally no solid narrative to how and what happens in here, it's just a free for all with the actual basis for probing someone apparently falling on the principle of if the mob doesn't like you then you get canceled. Which is so incredibly relevant to C-SPAM that I can't think straight.

Just lmfao

samantonio posted:

lmao

I hear ya. I'm just pointing out some of the hypocrisies that are going on in here which I feel is very C-SPAM at heart. A probe came down for me laughing at hapsby's post on creating a funny C-SPAM game. I was later told it wasn't about me laughing but that other people didn't like that I was posting pictures. In the picture thread. Later I posted a picture of a happy couple on valentines day and got a probe for it because "too many pearls". Then I was told that the reason was not true, just the mod's way of trying to come up with some words for a reason. The true reason, they said, was that I wasn't providing enough context with the photos I posted, wasn't staying true to the theme of the thread which was politics and hadn't let others know that I was a photographer. So when the probe was lifted I posted one photo of a homeless man, gave context, placed it in the proper theme and let people know I was a photographer was once again railed against, this time I was writing too many words in the picture thread. And when people talked about me and I responded I was told I was constantly talking about myself. lmfao there is literally no solid narrative to how and what happens in here, it's just a free for all with the actual basis for probing someone apparently falling on the principle of if the mob doesn't like you then you get canceled. Which is so incredibly relevant to C-SPAM that I can't think straight.

Just lmfao

fr0id posted:

pic of the landing of commodore Perry’s black ships arriving in Japan

Muscle Wizard posted:

yes lol one of the most famous photographs in contemporary american history is about the same level as the dude posting bw shots of boring city streets.

Lt. Danger posted:

laws are not an ends in themselves but merely tools for a society to encourage/discourage particular behaviours, attitudes and values. using One Weird Trick to press boundaries while technically remaining within the law doesn't actually work

if you wanted posters itt to treat you kindly you perhaps should not have treated them first with contempt (regardless of whether you were following the letter of the rules or not)

Lt. Danger posted:

if you wanted posters itt to treat you kindly you perhaps should not have treated them first with contempt

GoutPatrol posted:

lol who cares about laws

Wheeee posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU

KoRMaK posted:

fr0id posted:

gently caress it. if you’re gonna probe sanantonio for a post where they post a pic, probe me too. I like CSPAM but come the gently caress on don’t probe for pics, just ask them to add context.

pic of Nixon’s daughters, purportedly. may be someone else there.