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...They’d been worried for weeks about the losses they were facing on U.S. home loans....
...“Japan will be the first to pass through this ordeal because the lending terms for non-recourse loans made for real estate investments are short, at three years,” says Tetsuji Takenouchi, who heads the commercial...
...Yes, because the alternative was probably lengthy unemployment if Chrysler had gone bankrupt, which it would have without the loan guarantees....
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