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

 
 
  • About Eamonn Fingleton
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Tag Archives: nexis

The complaisant watchdog: how the press missed the Madoff scandal

Sandcastle Empire Posted on April 23, 2009 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 22, 2010

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times slept while Bernie Madoff swindled. [Article first published in CounterPunch. To read the original click here.] An old maxim has it that newspa­per editors separate the wheat from the chaff, then … Continue reading →

Posted in Press, Service economy | Tagged chittum, counterpunch, deogun, front-running, garrity, gerald seib, gretchen morgenson, howard kurtz, madoff, markopolos, michael lewis, mort zuckerman, nexis, paul steiger, red flag, wilke

Fingleton vs. China: The empire strikes back

Sandcastle Empire Posted on March 2, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 23, 2010

East Asian officials don’t take it lying down when a foreign correspondent investigates their guilty secrets. Below is an article I wrote for the International Herald Tribune‘s editorial page on the seventieth anniversary of the Nanking Massacre. The article noted … Continue reading →

Posted in China, Japan, Press, Sino-Japanese relations, Trade | Tagged c.w. young, cia, compensation, iht, kwok-yin chan, nanjing, nanking massacre, nexis, school textbooks, Sino-Japanese relations, tienanmen, wto

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Categories

  • American decline
  • Book reviews
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  • Global economy
  • Great East Japan Earthquake
  • History
  • International Trade
  • Japan
  • Manufacturing
  • Press
  • Service economy
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