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Created: 2025-07-15 15:56:12 UTC

Decades of cheap credit and bailouts created a side effect:

Zombie companies, firms that should have gone bankrupt, but survive due to low rates and state support.

They drag down productivity, innovation, and wages.

Japan’s economy didn’t collapse, but it became stagnant.

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