Like so many refugees the extra terrestrials orb into our country at the East River and are greeted by the Statue of Liberty.

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EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS and a pensive chihuahua partly explain the success of two of Japan's consumer-finance firms.

ECONOMIST: Japanese consumer finance

My guess is as good as anyone's (well, perhaps not those who think it was the work of extra-terrestrials).

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