Nobody here talking about Japan. They were the leader way back with money printing, massive sovereign debt, debasing currency, ultra dovish central bank policies...etc They have lead this road and they had a massive real estate bubble and crash before ours. They never recovered from the consequences for any of these events. Poor market performance, low real estate values, massive conglomerates being propped up by their central bank. Mostly monopolistic based corporations with low stock values and boring earnings. Japans foolish monetary policies led directly to Chinas emergence as a manufacturing super power.
so, now with massive imported inflation via commodities they do not produce and supply disruptions from (unfriendly nations). They now have the worst kind of inflation and still trying to stay the dovish route...because if they do raise interest rates (without holding a reserve currency), every hike will cause untold debt servicing costs and each round of printing at these levels causing massive instability in the yen...its just a matter of short order till the Yen begins 10% drops each quarter and the economy goes into a depression. The EU probably follow the same route with the euro after a period of time...same scenario. The fully socialist EU's foolish monetary policies led directly to Russia becoming a debt free, sole commodity provider and a re-born post communist superpower.
Nations that have built their strategy upon massive sovereign debt, abnormally low interest rates and money printing...yet have no real manufacturing or commodity base and have high labor costs and high cost social aid programs.