Today, when foreign journalists stumble into MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and demand to know what will be done about Japan’s trade surpluses, they sometimes get this strange answer. “When the earthquake comes, the trade surplus will go away.”
~ Michael Lewis
“How A Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street & The Global Economy,” 1989
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Wikipedia
How A Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street & The Global Economy
kottke.org (16 March 11)
