Interesting tidbit: We're way passed that with the BoJ. They're the majority shareholder of 55 companies on the Nikkei.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-14/the-tokyo-...

That's right. The Bank Of Japan is printing money to prop of the value of top companies trading on Japan's exchange. Think about the macroeconomic causes and consequences of that.

Even Better think about the consequences of Japan's aging population relying upon the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund, being propped up by the JCBs purchase of equities.

>The GPIF’s results are seen as a gauge of broad market performance, as the fund owns nearly 1% of global equity markets and more than 7% of the Japanese stock market. Domestic and foreign equities comprised 44% of the portfolio at the end of March, below its 50% target weighting for the asset class, the fund said in a statement. http://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-gpif-pension-fund-suffers...

There is this can they keep on kicking, hoping to out run the "current" malaise but you can't escape the Great Graying when your economies are dependent upon constant expansion.