Is there any way to save the Yen?

Ben Bernanke once said he'd throw dollars from helicopters in the name of tackling deflation, whereas it seems the Japanese authorities' preferred strategy is leaving cash in public conveniences.

Ben Bernanke has his helicopter. John Maynard Keynes had old bottles buried in coal mines.

And the Japanese government? How can Tokyo dish out free money and put an end to deflation, that horror of falling prices and wages?

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