Scenarios about 'plaza accord'
The Plaza Accord was a 1985 agreement between France, West Germany, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to other major currencies. This coordinated intervention in currency markets aimed to correct trade imbalances, particularly the U.S. trade deficit with Japan, and represents a significant moment of international economic cooperation during the late Cold War era.
What If The Lost Decade in Japan Never Occurred?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Japan avoided its economic stagnation of the 1990s, potentially transforming global economic power dynamics and technological development into the 21st century.