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Return of the Living Dead
2008-12-18
What the U.S. can learn from Japan's failed experiment with "zombie businesses"
Posted by:tipper

#2  the government had encouraged them to follow the bad practices in the first place

Hmmm, does sounds familiar.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-12-18 03:29  

#1  Flawed analysis...the Japanese experience was because the firms involved would lose face if they defaulted, and the government couldn't allow that, because the government had encouraged them to follow the bad practices in the first place. Cultural...
Posted by: gromky   2008-12-18 03:23  

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