The odd thing is that the PNC transactions had been done several times in Japan with
the same ill intent and were thoroughly blessed by regulators there, who were apparently happy to do anything to suggest that the nightmarish balance sheets of Japanese banks were improving.
Authenticity is key in dating and relationships... and, at the
same time I think we are all inherently inauthentic to a certain degree... better yet, «full of it,» although not usually with any
ill -
intent.