<story><title>Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-to-subsidize-100-of-salaries-at-small-companies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Coming to the realization that our economic crisis (primarily massive number of newly unemployed) was largely avoidable with a scheme like this vs the PPP loan program and multi-trillion money printing we got instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronblohowiak</author><text>BoJ’s money printer has been going since well before cv19. They pioneered central banks buying ETFs (its even called Japanification..) I don’t believe the crisis would have been avoidable since salaries are only one part of the economy (ex:how does debt work?)</text></comment>
<story><title>Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-to-subsidize-100-of-salaries-at-small-companies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Coming to the realization that our economic crisis (primarily massive number of newly unemployed) was largely avoidable with a scheme like this vs the PPP loan program and multi-trillion money printing we got instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>10 millions laid off workers in Japan IS an economic crisis regardless.&lt;p&gt;This is the equivalent of all the workers from the top 20-30+ companies in Japan no longer working.</text></comment>