At first glance, a write-off of the Bank of Japan’s huge JGB holdings offers a simple solution to the country’s debt problem. But it is not clear that such a drastic step would actually help significantly. We still think that higher inflation rather than accounting shenanigans are the only answer to Japan’s debt problem.
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