Shortage of demand for currently produced goods and services and mass unemployment no longer loom as the region’s biggest macroeconomic problems. Flooding their economies with liquidity, maintaining export-friendly exchange rates, and spending to employ workers directly and boost the supply of safe savings vehicles have made the Great Recession in East Asia less dire than it has been elsewhere.
东亚地区（日本除外）的各国政府似乎都干得不错。商品/服务需求短缺和大规模失业已不再是该地区最大的宏观经济问题。通过提高经济体内部的流动性，维持有利于出口的汇率，直接出钱雇佣工人并供应足量安全储蓄工具等手段，东亚地区的大萧条状况比世界其他地区都更为轻微。