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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (6998)	7/16/2003 8:48:12 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	of 33421

>>Ministry officials are kicking around new ideas, hoping to make buying bonds as easy as purchasing postage stamps. The ministry is considering selling government bonds online and even through Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores. "We want to make bonds familiar enough so that ordinary people feel they can just slip on a pair of clogs and run out to buy some," Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa told reporters in April. Public-finance professor Mr. Atoda doesn't think that's enough. He and members of a key government advisory board are lobbying to put investment professionals in charge of supervising the market, rather than "amateur" finance bureaucrats.<< why not just set up bond kiosks in the shopping malls<g> (oh wait, they're not shopping)

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