All this is enough to alienate investors, but before you write the country off, read Benjamin Fulford's "Jack Welch lite" on page 64.

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Benjamin Fulford, our Tokyo bureau chief for the past two years, previously exposed corruption in the public works sector (FORBES, Feb. 8, 1999).

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Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker told Forbes magazine's Benjamin Fulford that he can't recall in his career a touchier global economic situation.

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