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Tag Archives: pat choate
Evening in America
I have been reading two new books on trade (this review was first published in the December 2010 issue of the American Conservative). The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America’s Decline, and How We Must Compete in the … Continue reading
Lessons from the Sublime Porte: How to lose an empire
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
Posted in History, Trade
Tagged birdal, economies of scale, foreign debts, mercantilism, ottoman, pat choate, tariffs, trade, value added tax, vat
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I told you so (cont’d)
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
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Service economy, Trade
Tagged "trade-deficits-don't-matter", alan abelson, alfred eckes, allan sloan, bertelsmann, chalmers johnson, devaluation, greenspan, hollings, jim grant, john cassidy, lexisnexis, marshall auerback, ohmae, optical fiber, ottoman, pat buchanan, pat choate, robert heller, tariffs, unsustainable
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Boeing, Boeing,….Gone: An article revisited
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
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
Tagged 787, Airbus, alan macpherson, b-47, boeing, dassault, david pritchard, harry stonecipher, hollowing out, louis uchitelle, mcdonnell douglas, open kimono, outsourcing, pat choate, r&d management, seattle, sphere of influence, thornton wilson
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Finance is too important to be left to Wall Street’s self-interest
Getting the American economy back on solid ground will require new financial regulations. Goldman Sachs alums aren’t the people for the job. [As published in the American Conservative on October 20, 2008.] As bewildered Americans survey the wreckage of their … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Service economy
Tagged bail-out, bailout, blankfein, dean baker, donna edwards, eliot spitzer, fdic, glass-steagall, gretchen morgenson, john kay, john shadegg, marcy kaptur, neel kashkari, pat choate, paul craig roberts, paulson, peter defazio, predatory lending, tsinghua, wall street, william isaac, zero-accountability
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Dangerous Business: A devastating account of the downside of globalism
Pat Choate has written the ultimate riposte to the radical globalists who dominate policy-making in Washington. [This review first appeared in the September 15, 2008 issue of Manufacturing & Technology News.] Americans of a certain age know that something is … Continue reading
America’s creativity conceit
One of the biggest misconceptions in the American trade debate is the idea that America can count on superior creativity to stay ahead of the crowd. [Article as published in the American Conservative on November 21, 2007.] TOKYO. Almost everything the … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, China, Global economy, History, Japan, Manufacturing, Service economy
Tagged american creativity, assembled in china, big science, china sphere, collider, daniel griswold, designed by apple in california, edward miller, ipod, ivan p. hall, john snow, magnetic compass, mitsubishi zero, pat choate, u.s.-china economic and security review commission
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Political advantage: A classic article by Pat Choate
This classic article on the Japanese trade lobby by Pat Choate, which was first published in the September-October 1990 issue of the Harvard Business Review, is presented here with the permission of the author. Political Advantage: Japan’s Campaign for America By … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, History, Japan, Manufacturing, Press, Trade
Tagged chalmers johnson, charles von loewenfeldt, chrysanthemum club, consumers for world trade, david olive, Donald Riegle, fujisankei, george packard, harvard business review, herbert e. meyer, industrial espionage, inhofe, japan bashing, japanese trade lobby, john young, keidanren, kevin kearns, miti, pat choate, reagan, rehm, revolving door, toshiba machine, vers, von raab
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