ABSTRACT
Understanding the economic multiplier, Japanese industry could actually sell to the world at what would be a loss for a free enterprise corporation and still keep running. Japan invested its accumulated surplus values, above that needed for building industry, in US treasury notes and other financial and real properties in the United States. This has locked both Japan and America into a debt/equity embrace that neither knows how to get out of. Care for another nation's economy is between allied imperial centers of capital only. There is no such sincere concern over economic collapses in either a resource-providing or a competing country. Japan has reached the limits of taxing the public to finance industry, and the lower costs of offshore corporate mercantilism are forcing Japan's industry and its economic multiplier offshore. The Weight of the Yen is a textbook on how these Social Control belief systems work.
