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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
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Tagged 787, blindside, boeing, dollar, freedomfest, mark skousen, mitsubishi, soros, tac, toray
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Japan then, America now: A misleading comparison
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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Tagged "bad news" public relations, 787, basket case, can japan compete?, carbon fiber, crash, euromoney, fccj, karen elliott house, mitsubishi, nidec, ohga, okuda, osaka, ottoman, paul krugman, skyscrapers, suzy menkes, titanium, toyota, toyota lexus, wings
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