globalization & Pynchon?

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The Japanese success story after the war (not before it, Pearl Harbour 
wouldn't have happened if they had "success" before) depended on the very 
very narrow connection between the government and the big trust corporations. 
It was a kind of "super keynesianism". Until the eighties when the "bubblegum 
economy" began... now the state debts are 130 % of the gross income product, 
and, remember, if you want to join the Euro Zone in Europe you only may have 
got 60 %...
America's long boom in the nineties had its reason in the booming stock 
markets, and the fact that the dollar is still the world currency. And plenty 
of  Japanese money is still flowing through your veins...
Kurt-Werner Pörtner