article.nationalreview.com - 12/5/2008
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Ask yourself this: Why are we in this financial crisis? Any short list of reasons would include a lack of transparency in markets and regulatory rule-making; collusion between business and government; the politicization of lending practices (including the socialization of risk and the ...
theatlantic.com - 12/4/2008
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“Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You
Money” Image credit: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg News/Landov A mericans know...
that China has financed much of their nation’s public and private debt. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain ...
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“Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You ...
atimes.com - 12/4/2008
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China’s six-to-one advantage over the US By Spengler
America outspends China on defense by a margin of...
more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. [1] In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the ...
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Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, ...
article.nationalreview.com - 12/3/2008
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At a pro-gay-marriage rally in Los Angeles after
the vote, chants of Mormon scum! were reported. Envelopes...
containing white powder have been sent to Mormon temples in California and Utah; vandals hit other temples. Lists of businesses to boycott ...
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An Ugly Attack on Mormons by Jonah Goldberg on National ...
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... planned and managed their economies. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressives drooled over Otto von Bismarck, and today every self-proclaimed global strategist gazes at China s managed capitalism like a kid with his nose pressed against a candy-store window. Of course, China has made enormous progress since it decided that markets are a more desirable means of improving the lot of its citizens than organized mass murder. But China s fans still have an enormous blind spot. CONTINUED 1 2 ...
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Foggy Crystal Ball by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online
These are humbling times for champions of the free market and American-style capitalism.
Really? Why?
Ask yourself this: Why are we in this financial crisis?
Any short list of reasons would include a lack of transparency in markets and regulatory rule-making; collusion between business and government; the politicization of lending practices (including the socialization of risk and the privatization of profit through giant governmental entities like Fannie Mae);
Then ask yourself: Does this sound like a free market? ...
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