Do countries' Phillips Curves look like the country? A number of us showed that this is generally true back in 2007. [see here, but look for an archived copy of the original site since, unfortunately, the pictures from the old EclectEcon site were not transferred to the TypePad site]. We showed that the Phillips Curves for many countries do, sort of, look like the country, including Japan. And today, what do I see? This.
Recycled from the blogosphere, clearly. I must look to see how many more of the things I have written (or in which I have participated) are being recycled. Here is Canada's Phillips Curve from 1948 - 96.