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Dollars and Dragons
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
Posted in American decline, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
Tagged 787, blindside, boeing, dollar, freedomfest, mark skousen, mitsubishi, soros, tac, toray
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More nonsense from the New York Times on Japan’s “lost decades”
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
Posted in Japan, Press
Tagged disheartened, japan, japanese gdp, mark skousen, martin fackler, naka-dori, new york times, roppongi hills, tokyo midtown, vuitton, yen
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