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Sandcastle Empire

Eamonn Fingleton's commentaries on the politics and economics of American decline

 
 
  • About Eamonn Fingleton
  • Thirty years of prescience
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    • In the Jaws of the Dragon
    • In Praise of Hard Industries
    • Blindside
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  • Wikipedia and Truth: One Author’s Experience

Tag Archives: dean baker

The New York Times on Japan: Continuing fallout

Sandcastle Empire Posted on October 20, 2010 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 21, 2010

Expert observers Holstein, Fallows, and Baker express their dismay at the Times’s miscues. I am not alone in challenging the New York Times’s recent account of a “disheartened” Japan. William J. Holstein, former president of the Overseas Press Club of America … Continue reading →

Posted in Japan, Press | Tagged dean baker, deflation, disheartened, good deflation, japan, japanese economy, william holstein

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

Sandcastle Empire Posted on December 24, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 16, 2010

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 →

Posted in International Trade | Tagged american decline, dean baker, foreign debt, iraq, james goldsmith, japan, manufacturing, new economy, opel, ottoman, press spin, renault, robert schiller, subprime, trade barriers

Finance is too important to be left to Wall Street’s self-interest

Sandcastle Empire Posted on October 20, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 19, 2010

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

Recent Posts

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Categories

  • American decline
  • Book reviews
  • China
  • Global economy
  • Great East Japan Earthquake
  • History
  • International Trade
  • Japan
  • Manufacturing
  • Press
  • Service economy
  • Sino-Japanese relations
  • Trade
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