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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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More nonsense from the New York Times on Japan’s “lost decades”

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Eamonn Fingleton

The Times says Japan is “disheartened.” It hasn’t looked at Japan’s trade figures — or America’s. The New York Times yesterday carried a major article headlined “Japan Goes from Dynamic to Disheartened.” Rarely has the truth of the Japanese economy … Continue reading →

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