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

 
 
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Tag Archives: pat choate

Evening in America

Sandcastle Empire Posted on October 30, 2010 by Eamonn FingletonDecember 1, 2010

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 →

Posted in American decline, Book reviews, Global economy, History, Trade | Tagged american decline, herbert stein, north american free trade agreement, pat choate, paul craig roberts, prestowitz, ralph gomory, world trade organization

Lessons from the Sublime Porte: How to lose an empire

Sandcastle Empire Posted on July 2, 2010 by Eamonn FingletonJanuary 12, 2012

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

I told you so (cont’d)

Sandcastle Empire Posted on April 4, 2009 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 22, 2010

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

Boeing, Boeing,….Gone: An article revisited

Sandcastle Empire Posted on November 24, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonMarch 22, 2011

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

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

Dangerous Business: A devastating account of the downside of globalism

Sandcastle Empire Posted on September 16, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 20, 2010

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 →

Posted in Book reviews, Global economy, Trade | Tagged bagdikian, dangerous business, executive order 13184, k street, manufacturing news, pat choate, pat choate, robert lighthizer, ross perot, trans-pacific chicken, trojan horse, viruses

America’s creativity conceit

Sandcastle Empire Posted on November 21, 2007 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 20, 2010

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

Political advantage: A classic article by Pat Choate

Sandcastle Empire Posted on April 4, 2001 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 21, 2010

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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