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in the world, most significant, but you have a story that I think, that I didn't know.

And let me just summarize what I understand of it, and then I'm just going to turn it over to you to tell the whole story.

So it's the 1990s, you're living in Japan, a consultant to the Bank of Japan.

You speak Japanese.

And in 2001, you publish a book about the banking system in Japan in Japanese.

It's not published in English.

It's only published in Japanese in Japan.

And that book about the Central Bank of Japan and explaining why the country is in this protracted

recession becomes number one in japan um which is kind of amazing even in japan beating harry

potter um and then your life changes completely i think this is one of the more the more significant

stories that i hadn't heard so if you don't, if you could take it from there, explain what the book was about, why people responded to it as a bit of a detective story. I was, you know, working on the book and doing the research for the book, which really was the greater part of the 1990s. There's a lot of work that's gone into this. By the way, the name of the book is Princess of the Yen.

Princess of the Yen. Princess of the Yen.

And, yeah, it's not so easily available, but I can mention that later.

I was trying to solve some puzzles.

You know, I'd come to Japan, I'd learned Japanese, and I was, you know, economist,

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