? Economics is like a Monet painting.  Stand too close and all you see is a bunch of seemingly random paint strokes.  Back up a few steps and an image emerges.  

The painting of bubblenomics started with the Plaza Accord, September 1985, where five nations agreed to manipulate the dominant currencies at the time.  Japan enjoyed a 50% devaluation of the US$ vs the yen, artificially enriching its citizens so they could travel the world in busloads with eighty pounds of cameras around their necks.