March 2009
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The China Question
Is the American era over? I’m beginning to wonder if the answer is yes. History is the reason. In 1914, the British Empire spanned the globe, and London was the financial capitol (eh, capital would work, too) of the world. Four years later, England’s fortunes had changed. The country had shifted much of its manufacturing production to the war and spent quite a bit of its capital...
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“Children like to think they are less bigoted than their parents, for example. In...”
– —Lexington, “Anger Management: Some Americans are getting mad as hell,” The Economist, March 5, 2009
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“It’s not a great depression, neither is it a great recession we’re going through...”
– —Jeff Jarvis, blog post: “The Great Restructuring”
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“It has been 513 calendar days since the stock market peaked on Oct. 9, 2007....”
– —Floyd Norris, The New York Times
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