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Dollars and Dragons

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Eamonn Fingleton

I have just published the article below in  the American Conservative. TOKYO—In the mid 1990s, I published a book entitled Blindside: Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. By the Year 2000. The prediction in the subtitle … Continue reading →

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Boeing, Boeing,….Gone: An article revisited

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Eamonn Fingleton

In a cover story in the American Conservative in January 2005, I documented the remarkable degree to which East Asian governments have been persuading the Boeing corporation to transfer proprietary American aerospace technology. Soon afterwards Unsustainable.org crashed and it was … Continue reading →

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Japan then, America now: A misleading comparison

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Eamonn Fingleton

America’s economic crisis today is not like Japan’s in the 1990s. It is far worse. (This article was first published in the Number 1 Shimbun, the magazine of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.) American commentators have been rushing to … Continue reading →

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Piranhas in the Amazon system

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Eamonn Fingleton

Authors have always taken on vested interests. Now vested interests have found a new way to strike back. The unsuspecting American public assumes that the rise of online bookstores like Amazon.com has powerfully served the cause of truth.  Not necessarily.

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