nah thats easy to say, I never saw a country suffering a disaster and economy going up after.

Now the question, did Gadafhi farted to provoke the earthquake and pissed to provoke the tsunami??? because now all the world press is focused in Japan while he smashes the Libian rebels and civils

nah, seriously, idt 'crisis in Japan' must be discussed in politics. Its a disaster probably provoked by the human interaction with earth thru the years, we had EQs before anouncing this one (NZ), everyday news talk about million fishes dying at some bay, bees disapeering, icebergs melting, and stuff like that, but we just swap channel to watch stupid reality shows...

dont you see reality is way more interesting right now??  wait in your armchair eating your stake until it comes to you

damn hipocrytes

oh yay more 2012 hype

> [Render] wrote:

> nah thats easy to say, I never saw a country suffering a disaster and economy going up after.

1: Japan has been suffering from a "lost decade" of stagnation since the 90's (so technically not just a decade, lol), featuring a big lack of liquidity and investment for a while.  Natural disasters do create huge amounts of destruction.  That being said, they also create a new demand for reconstruction, especially in developed nations (it's much easier to attract an investor to an industrial giant, as opposed to a developing nation, assuming the industrial giant has a need to be filled through investment).  Development, by definition, is an infusing of liquidity into a market.  This is a direct effort against the primary thing hurting their economy.

2: A large portion of the cause for Japan's lost "decade" was that the government was working closely with businesses to construct monopolies within the system.  These reforms were already beginning to take place.  That being said, with the current crisis devastating Japan locally, it will need to call in outside support (and thus outside competition) to develop its infrastructure and economic base.  The result?  A direct conflict with the very forces which were damaging the economy.

3: Rather than re-hashing this, I'm posting the link again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk&feature=player_embedded#!

Say it loud, say it proud!  We're all Keynesians now!

EDIT: Okay, fine, the video (and the argument resulting) is probably not the most important of my arguments... in fact, it's probably meaningless... I just like the video!