TAC contributor Eamonn Fingleton has long questioned the idea that the 1990s were a “lost decade” for the Japanese economy. Now he’s challenging two popular proponents of that thesis to a public ...

America's fate looks dicey in the showdown with the Chinese juggernaut, warns this vigorous jeremiad. Fingleton (In Praise of Hard Industries) argues that China's East Asian development model of ...

George W. Bush’s under secretary of commerce for international trade, Frank Lavin, was once described in an official press release as “America’s Salesman-in-Chief.” He emerges in a less glorious light ...

Hard on the heels of our debate over Eamonn Fingleton’s assertions about the under-reported, or ignored, strength of Japan’s economy, he published a long op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times doubling ...

Is it time we shorted George Soros? Judging by his latest book, The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?, he certainly seems to have passed his sell-by date. While the book makes ...

Disclosure: I own stock in GlaxoSmithKline. It sometimes seems like foreigners can’t win in China’s corrupt distribution system. On the one hand, they feel pressured to offer “consultancy fees” and ...

My friend Eamonn Fingleton has emphasized that a key to understanding China’s partly controlled, partly out-of-control internal regime is the concept of “selective enforcement.” In principle, a large ...