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...idea that car sales are going to go back to the 16 million level even if GDP begins to grow rapidly is a pipe dream. Americans realize that a well-built, well-maintained car is good for 100,000 miles or more and perhaps six or seven years of use. Americans are learning that the hard way because they can't afford new cars, but it is a lesson which is not likely to be unlearned. People are going to keep cars longer and fewer new cars are going to be sold. America's car companies are in a better...
...thing, their carbon footprints are bigger. Between their private jets, fleets of cars and large (often multiple) houses, the wealthy tend to suck up more than their fair share of the earth's resources. And that's not even counting the environmental impact of the businesses that built their bank accounts...
...Above all, Japan has to cope with the fact that the economic model on which it built both its postwar prosperity and social stability is broken. Japan's spectacularly successful export-oriented industries were responsible for creating the world's second largest economy, and their lifetime-employment policies, with generous benefits, obviated the need for a comprehensive social safety net of the sort familiar to Western Europeans. Then came the bubble. After financial markets were liberalized in the 1980s, Japan went on a debt-fueled binge that made modern Americans look as thrifty as Amish farmers. The stock market soared...
...done so twice in modern times, first after the Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century, when a traditional, closed society modernized so thoroughly that by 1905 it was able to defeat a major European power, Russia, in war; and again after 1945, when a new economy was built from the ashes...
...other media outlets. In fact, about half its roughly 50-member crew is military.) "The Chinese, like the North Koreans, the Indians and the Soviets, maintain positive control of fishing fleets which come under military supervision in a crisis," McCreary said on NightWatch on Wednesday. "Fishing boats are built to military standards, usually have weapons mounts or fittings for depth charges and have military-approved communications." Thankfully, this time at least, the Impeccable slipped through...