Talk:Zombie company

Here are some sources using the terminology

I mentioned these in AfD, but I'm putting them here too. Not sure when I'll get a chance to add them, so if someone else is up to it, that would be great.

• "And now, with the exception of Lehman Brothers, most of these banks feel pretty close to invulnerable with a $250 billion government investment in their preferred stock in the offing. So much so, that some economists, like Brad DeLong of Berkeley, suggest that Wall Street could become like Japan's complacent banking sector. "The worry is that Paulson is in the process of creating a bunch of zombie banks," DeLong says." here [1]
• a mention somewhere here [2] * "Are we going to end up like Japan, in other words, a nether world of "zombie banks" that are not dead but not really alive either, still unable to work their way out from under all that bad debt? No one would have ever imagined this could happen in America, but conditions are ripe for just such an outcome." here [3].

These uses apply to banks, but the terminology works for companies too (think autos) and just has to be found and cited. ChildofMidnight (talk) 00:11, 21 February 2009 (UTC) Here are a few more

• "Fearing more bad news if banks were forced to disclose their real losses, Japan’s leaders allowed banks to keep loans to “zombie” companies on their balance sheets. Japan, instead, experimented with a series of funds, in part privately financed, to relieve banks of their bad assets."[4]
• "Paradoxically, though they are declining to extend credit to many smaller and stronger companies, the banks have been reluctant to cut off their worst customers, the all-but-insolvent zombie companies that have little or no hope of ever repaying their loans. Government subsidies, low interest rates and easy treatment by the banks keep these companies stumbling along because, in the short term, it is cheaper for the banks than letting them die and then having to write off all that has been lent to them." [5]
• "Falling land and stock prices have also conspired against the banks, which hold huge portfolios of those assets. And the banks are continuing to prop up large numbers of zombie companies, which have heavy debts and weak if any prospects of repaying them.

The zombies have become a political lightning rod. Japan's economy and financial services minister, Heizo Takenaka, wants the banks to assess their loan books more strictly and force the no-hope borrowers into liquidation. But many politicians have backed the resistance of banks to shutting down the zombies, for fear of widespread layoffs and a loss of political contributions from them." [6]. ChildofMidnight (talk) 00:17, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

ゾンビ会社 / ゾンビ企業

I find usage of both ゾンビ会社 and ゾンビ企業 in Japanese for "zombie company". But is the scope of this article about Japanese zombie companies, or zombie companies in general? Prburley (talk) 18:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

The article seems to be about business in general, with nothing in particular regarding Japanese companies. It references UK companies, for example. It should be stricken from WP:Japan, as irrelevant. Boneyard90 (talk) 19:16, 14 November 2012 (UTC)