Many view MetLife as primarily a life insurance company selling a variety of products such as variable, universal, whole and term life insurance policies.
After the canvas was cleaned, it became clear that Ensor's nightmarish vision of a boisterous city boulevard teeming with banners, placards and a massed, modern rabble was shaped not only by the artist's deep-seated pessimism but by his critical view of contemporary art, captured here in dazzling displays of virtuoso painting that are as variable, original and richly parodic as the painter's darkly comic brigade.
The Fed also allows the big banks to use the devices that Enron used to keep its skullduggery from the public view Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) with a new label, Variable Interest Entities (VIEs).