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...insolvent so that they could stay open without dealing with the reality of their liabilities. This story sounds grimly similar to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, by which the Treasury handed $700 billion to the nation’s banks with little positive result. The consequences of the Japanese??and hence our—rescue plan, according to Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute of International Economics, “is that the banks’ top management simply burns through that cash, socializing the losses for the taxpayer, grabbing any rare gains for management payouts or shareholder...
...Doug MacArthur’s navy,” as the fledgling fleet was called, fighting was fierce—and, in many cases, fatal. Perhaps old soldiers never die, but young ones did in droves. In total, 473 Americans—along with more than 12,000 Japanese??perished in the battle...
...Halloween night of that year, Kaiju—which means “mysterious beast” in Japanese??debuted at Boston’s Revolving Museum. Since then, its reputation has grown exponentially—publications as varied as the The New Yorker, the Comic Buyer’s Guide and The Boston Phoenix have run features on the trend. Despite the attention, the group stays true to its Boston roots, keeping their home base and most of their shows in the area...
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