Fiat money and Keynesianism is a global problem.

Inflation data is manipulated everywhere and reported as being less than actual numbers.

Releasing Money supply data is everywhere a 'trust me bro' exercise that is unreliable.

It's an epidemic that has been a primary cause for the rise of socialism in the last century.

Extensive welfare, freebies and subsidies exist everywhere in the world which has fiat money, whether it's a democracy, one party system, dictatorship, monarchy or oligarchy.