JAPAN’S ECONOMY BACK IN RECESSION: Japanese economy shrank 0.8 percent in the third quarter, Reuters reports.

When was it ever out of recession? And why did we follow their economic model to produce similar results, as Nick Gillespie warned would happen in an early Reason TV clip from June of 2009 as the numerous busted flushes of hopenchange crony corporatism and the government bailouts of GM and Chrysler were just getting started:

Related: John Hawkins on “The 7 Keys To Trapping As Many Americans As Possible In Poverty.”