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The weight of the yen : how denial imperils America's future and ruins an alliance / R. Taggart Murphy.
Lippincott Library HG4910 .M8695 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, R. Taggart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investments, Japanese--United States.
- Investments, Japanese.
- Loans, Japanese.
- United States.
- Budget deficits--United States.
- Budget deficits.
- Stocks--Prices--Japan.
- Stocks.
- Stocks--Prices.
- Japan.
- Loans, Japanese--United States.
- Japan--Economic conditions--1945-1989.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Japan.
- International economic relations.
- Japan--Foreign economic relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York; London : W.W. Norton, 1996.
- Summary:
- Why has the deficit proved such an intractable problem and our national debt risen to $4 trillion? Why can't our political leaders gain a balanced budget without tinkering with the Constitution? This book looks to Japan and the Reagan-Bush years for the surprising answers, providing a fast-paced and intriguing financial history of the past 15 years and an analysis of the problems facing America and Japan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393038327
- OCLC:
- 32969854
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