In Japan, where deflation has gripped the economy and interest rates have decreased to practically zero for years now, some reason along similar lines.They envisage defeating what Keynes, probably the most influential economist of the 20th century, called the liquidity trap; they contemplate the Bank of Japan resorting to inflation-creation via money printing -- by buying government bonds -- as a means of reviving consumption and thereby steering the economy out of its long stagnation.
U Japanu, gde ekonomiju muči deflacija i gde, u poslednjih nekoliko godina, kamatne stope bukvalno nisu porasle ni za promil, neki rezonuju na sličan način. Japanci planiraju da se izbore sa onim što je Kejnz, verovatno najuticajniji ekonomista 20. veka, nazvao zamkom likvidnosti; razmišljaju o tome da Japanska banka pribegne stvaranju inflacije štampanjem novca -- tačnije, kupovinom državnih obveznica -- u cilju oživljavanja potrošnje i samim tim "vađenja" ekonomije iz dugogodišnje stagnacije.