"Samurai and Idiots"


Olympus scandal 

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"If Olympus's cameras took such fuzzy pictures as their non-explanations about accounting irregularities then they would have been out of business long ago"

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This story about a giant multi-national company whose name is a household word, is a case-study in how global financial forces over the previous few decades have wrecked economies, and companies. 


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