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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1380659, member: 22143&quot;]Yes indeed.&nbsp; Japan did suffer huge inflation in world commodities and deflation in local assets.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Japanese public stopped borrowing and this caused a fall in housing and other assets that stalled the economy.&nbsp; I&#039;m flabberghasted at the prices on some of the food when I go there for example.&nbsp;&nbsp; Japan has two huge advantages over the USA that helped with the issue.&nbsp; First, their local economy is not globalised.&nbsp; Second, they continue to be a huge manufacturer of high premium, high technology goods.&nbsp; They have also cornered the market on a number of manufacturing techniques involving metallurgy &amp; ceramics that can&#039;t be gotten anywhere else now.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In other words a direct simplistic comparison to Japan and the USA isn&#039;t possible in the general sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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