Tag Archives: ottoman

Lessons from the Sublime Porte: How to lose an empire

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Eamonn Fingleton

Current U.S. trade policies were first tried by the Ottoman empire.  As I show in this article — first published in the August 2010 issue of the American Conservative – America’s decline is proceeding even faster. Here’s an economic history … Continue reading →

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I told you so (cont’d)

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Eamonn Fingleton

In 1999 I wrote a book that foreshadowed the collapse of America’s New Economy stock  boom. I went on to publish a paperback version with a new introduction — an introduction whose prescience has also stood the test of time. … Continue reading →

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The wrong-way Corrigans who engineered the U.S. train wreck

Posted on December 24, 2008 by Eamonn Fingleton

America’s decline counts as probably the most precipitate in history. So who’s to blame? America’s ideology-blinded media have a lot to answer for. As recently as 1965, when I started college, America had the world at its feet. Its decline … 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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