nytimes.com - 3/20/2009
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The Asian financial crisis offers lessons to solving our own — when insiders have broken a financial institution, the most direct remedy is to kick them out. >
bukisa.com - 3/20/2009
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South Korea is the 15th largest economy in
the world. Considering its minuscule geographic size this is...
a staggering statistic. Its economic world ranking is a testament to the industriousness of the Republic of South Korea and its people. Here’s how ...
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nytimes.com - 3/16/2009
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Why, more than a year into the global
financial crisis, do regulators and investors continue to rely...
on ratings? No one has been more wrong than Moody’s and S.&P.; >
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Op-Ed Contributors: Rated F for Failure
search.japantimes.co.jp - 3/17/2009
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SAN DIEGO — Japan and South Korea have
seen a lot of each other in the World...
Baseball Classic. Enough that Ichiro Suzuki thinks it might be their fate to play each other over and over again. "I guess we should get married then," Ichiro joked during Monday's practice at PETCO Park when informed ...
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Japan counting on Darvish against South Korea
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"Kick Them Out"
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... Off With
the Bankers, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak, Commentary, NY Times: A.I.G.
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So instead, it defends the payments by arguing they’re needed to retain
employees who are crucial for winding down transactions that are “difficult to
understand and manage.” ... There is no reason to believe this. ...
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