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History Shows Rebuilding Spurs Economy | |
March 14, 2011 A few years ago, a senior official at Japan’s finance ministry shocked a foreign guest by making a deliberately provocative statement. “What Japan’s economy needs is a really good earthquake,” he said. Now, tragically, his tongue-in-cheek wish has come true, the Financial Times reports. Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42066268?__source=RSS*tag*&par=RSS |