The Alternate History: What if Japan Never Signed the Plaza Accord?
In September 1985, finance ministers from five of the world’s largest economies gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The carpets were expensive. The chandeliers were ridiculous. And the agreement they signed would quietly detonate one of the most spectacular economic bubbles in modern history. The Plaza Accord was, on paper, a gentlemanly […]
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