If Abenomics works, Britain's leaders will look like monkeys | Simon Jenkins

George Osborne should abandon the tribal morality of austerity and, like Japan, print money not for banks but for people

If you thought Germany was a model modern economy, forget it. Look east. After two decades of self-imposed austerity, Japan has had enough. Its new leaders are systematically, deliberately, massively inflating their economy. Named after the new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, "Abenomics" is now two months into a thundering great plan B.

Japan's central bank has been ordered to...