Despite two wars, soaring oil prices and business scandals, the economy has been growing more than 3 percent a year.
Just when Japan thought that its string of business scandals had finally ended, another burst open today.
Their crashing falls from grace helped make 2002 a year for business scandals that may never be topped.
Whether it will prevent even a single business scandal is another matter.
But in truth, Enron was always a business scandal, not a political scandal.
Politics and business scandals have taken over the front pages.
Now they threaten to hamper the investigation into one of the biggest business scandals in American history.
Each of the big business scandals uncovered so far suggests a different strategy for executive self-dealing.
First is that each of the major business scandals to emerge so far involved a different scam.
The police make a visit to the bank in order to investigate a recent business scandal.