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With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

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Toshihiko Fukui
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 7
Economist
Ōsaka
Balance
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Leave
Sheets
Banks
Existing
Businesses
Tend
Continue
Unprofitable
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Lending

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