TOKYO — The economist Milton Friedman once famously proposed scattering money from a helicopter to get consumers to spend their way out of deflation — the debilitating decline in prices and wages that can act as a deadweight on economic activity. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters The strengthening yen is making Japanese goods more expensive overseas. Above, cars sit a port in Yokohama. Copter cash may not yet be among the tools considered by the Japanese central bank in its quest to lift the...
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