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A heated banker and a hurt professor

Sandcastle Empire Posted on November 3, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 19, 2010

Now that the American economy has been revealed to everyone (not just to readers of my books) as a house of cards, I thought it might be safe to suggest that things in 1990s Japan weren’t all that bad. Two … Continue reading →

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