About to tackle Princes of the Yen by Richard Werner.

My wife just sent me a video of his: what I didn't know about central banking! TBH I'm shocked. Apparently we'd all be so much better if we had more local banks doing local lending to local businesses.

Explains a lot, actually, so I even mentioned him in an article I just wrote about my freelancing career. Now I know why the market has been increasingly impossible ...