Decorated white oxen drag an elaborate cart stuffed full of fireworks from the Porta al Prato to the Piazza del Duomo.

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The two long-term credit banks that later went bust (Long-Term Credit Bank and Nippon Credit Bank) were stuffed full of former finance-ministry staff.

ECONOMIST: Shooting the messenger

Today, forty years too late investors are learning that 401(k)s stuffed full of costly, poorly designed retail mutual funds are hardly a retirement plan.

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