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I'VE MOVED TO WWW.FINGLETON.NET: Retrospective on a Decade of Unsustainable.org
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Monday, November 01, 2010 |
I am moving to www.fingleton.net and will
no longer post updates here. This is an appropriate point to take stock of how
the Fingleton analysis has held up in the light of unfolding world events in the
near ten years since I launched unsustainable.org.
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The Times on Japan: Continuing Fallout
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
Expert observers Holstein, Fallows, and Baker express their dismay. By Eamonn
Fingleton
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More Nonsense from the New York Times on Japan's "Lost Decades"
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
The Times says Japan is "disheartened." It hasn't looked at Japan's trade
figures -- or America's.
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Lessons from the Sublime Porte: How to Lose an Empire
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010 |
Current U.S. trade policies were first tried by the Ottoman empire. America's
decline is proceeding even faster.
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Myths of the Japanese Economy
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
Press coverage of the Japanese economy has never been more misinformed.
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Edwin Reischauer: An Ambassador Who Lied to his Country
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
John Kennedy's ambassador to Japan, Edwin Reischauer, is the subject of a new
biography. Unfortunately the author's agenda has little to do with the truth.
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Germany: The Big Engine that Could
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Monday, March 01, 2010 |
When the global economic crisis began in 2008, many commentators predicted
Germany would be among
the worst hit. In reality, Germany has excelled not only in maintaining high
levels of employment but strong
exports. By Eamonn Fingleton
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Book Review: Pat Choate's Dangerous Business
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
Other writers have taken shots at globalism but few if any have come to the subject with a greater depth of
experience or a more acute intellect than Pat Choate. By Eamonn Fingleton
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How the Press Stabbed Detroit in the Back
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 |
This article appears in the current issue of CounterPunch. E.F.
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I Told You So (Cont'd)
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Saturday, April 04, 2009 |
In 1999 I wrote a book that foreshadowed the collapse of America's great
New Economy stock market boom of the late 1990s. I went on in 2003 to
publish a paperback version with a new introduction -- an introduction
whose prescience has also stood the test of time. This is it verbatim. E.F.
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A Reviewer Who Has Read the Book
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 |
The American radio industry's top liberal talk show host has had some nice
things to say about my book on China. That's flattering. What's even more
flattering is that he has read the book. Really read it, that is. EF
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The Complaisant Watchdog: The Press and the Madoff Scandal
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Sunday, February 15, 2009 |
The fact that the Madoff swindle went on so long speaks volumes about
the competence of American financial journalism. This article first
appeared in the February 1-15 issue of CounterPunch. EF
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The Wrong-way Corrigans who Engineered the U.S. Train Wreck
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
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. E.F.
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A Message for the Times: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 |
The New York Times prides itself on its uniquely high standards of
accuracy and fairness. So why did its overseas edition take so
long to correct the record when I was misrepresented a year
ago? E.F.
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Reactions to my Chang/Kamen Review
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Monday, December 15, 2008 |
My review of Paula Kamen's recent biography of Iris Chang was posted at
CounterPunch.org just two days ago. Reader reaction has been fast and
sometimes furious. E.F.
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What the Persecution of the Falun Gong Tells Us about New China
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 |
Even if the globalist-minded American press would prefer not to notice, the
Beijing authorities continue to persecute the Falun Gong. Yet the
movement's only known "offense" is that it is not controlled by the
Communist Party. E.F.
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Iris Chang: Elegy for a Brave Writer
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Saturday, December 13, 2008 |
Iris Chang was a Chinese-American author and historian who took her
own life in 2004. As Paula Kamen recounts in a new biography, Chang had
challenged the establishments of two of the world's most powerful
nations. This is my review of Kamen's book as posted today at
CounterPunch.org. E.F.
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Detroit: A Riposte to the Bashers
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Saturday, December 06, 2008 |
Detroit's problems are partly -- but only partly -- its own fault. Other
actors, not least the smart-alecks of America's opinion-making industry,
have played a crucial role in this tragedy. (This is a longer version of an
article also available at CounterPunch.org.) E.F.
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Finance as the Economics of the Cancer Cell
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 |
Much of my September 1999 book In Praise of Hard Industries was quickly
vindicated when America's New Economy boom collapsed in 2000. But
until recently my baleful analysis of the growth in financial services -- "the
economics of the cancer cell," I called it -- remained controversial. Not
anymore. My analysis can be read online via Amazon's Look Inside feature
but, for convenience sake, here it is verbatim and in its entirety. E.F.
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Boeing, Boeing....Gone: An Article Revisited
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Monday, November 24, 2008 |
In a cover story in the American Conservative in 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 intimated to me by someone who seemed to know that the problem
had been instigated by political interests offended by my article. After a
lapse of more than three years this person surfaced again today to hint
that this website may soon be interfered with again. My response is to re-
post the offending article, which, in view of America's current economic
crisis, is more relevant than ever. E.F.
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Pursuing Prosperity: Address to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
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Friday, November 14, 2008 |
I was the keynote speaker at a conference in Kiev on
November 13. Organized by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the event
focused on Ukraine's political and economic prospects. This is an abstract
of my talk. E.F.
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A Heated Banker and a Hurt Professor
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Monday, November 03, 2008 |
Now that the American economy has been revealed to everyone (not just
to readers of my books) as a house of cards, I thought it might be safe to
suggest that things in 1990s Japan weren't all that bad. Two Tokyo-based
observers have surfaced to divert attention from my argument. E.F.
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Finance is Too Important to Be Left to Wall Street's Self-Interest
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Monday, October 20, 2008 |
Getting the American economy back on solid ground will require new
financial regulations. Goldman Sachs alums arent the people for the job.
Article by Eamonn Fingleton as published in the American Conservative.
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The Clark-Fingleton Discussion
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 |
A riposte to a Tokyo-based educator on the foreign press's problems in
reporting Japan.
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Japan Then, America Now: A Misleading Comparison
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
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.)
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Dangerous Business: A Devastating Account of the Down Side of Globalism
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 |
Pat Choate has written the ultimate riposte to the radical globalists who
dominate policy-making in Washington.
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The Decline of the American Empire: An Expert Witness's Account
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
Senator Ernest F. Hollings's recently published autobiography, Making
Government Work, is wise, well-written, and consistently absorbing, writes
Eamonn Fingleton.
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Nanking: A Sequel to a Sequel to a Sequel
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
Two letters published in the International Herald Tribune
tendentiously mispresented my views on the Nanking
massacre. The newspaper has now acknowledged its error but this is not
apparent at its website.
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Fingleton vs. China: The Empire Strikes Back
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 |
In mid-December I wrote an editorial page article which, among other
things, suggested that Beijing had cooperated with an intransigent policy
by Tokyo of denying compensation to victims of Japan's war-time
atrocities. Retribution came swiftly.
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Jaws: A Note for Books Editors and Reviewers
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Friday, February 29, 2008 |
There are problems at the Amazon page for Jaws.
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REVISED PRESS RELEASE: In the Jaws of the Dragon
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
The publisher's press release for In the Jaws of the
Dragon has been revised. This is the new version.
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A Quiet Anniversary: The Nanking Massacre Remembered -- and Forgotten
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Monday, December 17, 2007 |
All conventional wisdom to the contrary, Japan and China cooperate
closely in key policies, most notably trade. In return for economic favors
from Tokyo, Beijing has never pursued claims for reparations over Japan's
aggression of the 1930s and early 1940s. It has even blocked victims of
the Nanking massacre suing Tokyo in international courts. [Article as
published on the editorial page of the International Herald
Tribune.]
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America's Creativity Conceit
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
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.
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The Untold Story of Japan's War Compensation Record
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
Although it is well known that the Japanese media extensively censor
themselves, foreign correspondents in Tokyo are often almost as hesitant
to tell the whole truth. Here is the full story on one important aspect of
Japanese policy that has long been the subject of particularly pervasive
self-censorship both inside and outside Japan.
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Why the Sun Is Still Rising
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Friday, May 06, 2005 |
"Juggernaut Japan" of the '80s gave way, in the U.S. press, to a narrative of economic obsolescence. That's what the Japanese wanted us to believe. [Article first published in the May 6, 2005 issue of The American Prospect.]
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The Anomalous Position of Christopher LaFleur
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Wednesday, April 25, 2001 |
When the history of American trade policy is written, people will ask what
the U.S. State Department was doing. An insight into the answer can be
gleaned in the career of Christopher LaFleur. At a crucial time for US-Japan
trade relations, he has served in Tokyo not only as the effective head of
the American embassy but, also reportedly, as the local chief of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
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Political Advantage: Japan's Campaign for America
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Saturday, September 01, 1990 |
This classic article on the Japan 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.
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