Debt is not a problem as long as you can manage it, Japan has printed trillions and they haven't experience anything close to Venezuela, the debt is held by themselves, there is no pressure for it to be paid, it's perfectly serviceble at current rates. Much as Germany before Covid was issuing debt at negative rates.
It seems so, internal debt has its advantages, but I suppose it still creates some problems in the long term. Otherwise, all the countries of the world would copy what Japan is doing (some may be partially doing it) and they would all have the majority of the debt to themselves.
As for the economy, it's complicated, explosive growth till two decades ago, slowing consumtion from those levels, aging population, spending impulses have failed, rather that just economic is also a social issue and the mentality probably plays a way bigger role than we imagine.
I read that it is almost impossible to get citizenship in Japan, even if you are the child of parents who were born in Japan - and while we in the West solve this with mass migrations, they still persist in a very closed society. I think that all the changes that are happening globally in the world have also affected them, but they have not yet found a way to adapt to them.
I remember seeing Bitcoin fall to 60K, then 55K, then to 52K... but it never did reach 50K, despite the price going down by the hundreds seemingly every hour.
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Officially, the price of BTC fell below $50k, and even some members on BTT boasted that their orders were filled below that price. Of course, it always depends on where you look at the prices, because we know from the past that the differences can be considerable in relation to a particular country and crypto exchange.