Japan’s corporate zombies were at the epicenter of its first “lost decade” in the 1990’s. Sclerotic companies were put on life-support credit lines by their zaibatsu – like banking partners – delaying their inevitable failure and perpetuating inefficiencies and disincentives that resulted in a post-bubble collapse in Japanese productivity growth.
亚洲需要一种新形势的消费者。在美国，后经济危机时代催生出大量“消费僵尸”——受经济危机影响他们几乎无购买力。而这极有可能会阻碍预期于几年后开始的全球性消费增长。那么这就意味着以出口为重心的亚洲将被迫转向其内部市场，依靠其自身的35亿亚洲消费者来维持经济发展。