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...cows like power systems and aircraft engines may be peaking. Even the political climate has changed. In Europe, regulators scotched GE's proposed $43 billion deal with Honeywell (last week they moved on to Microsoft). In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency is forcing GE to clean up the mess it made dumping PCBs into the Hudson River...
...help curb the confused mess of parental ideals into which children are born, the government needs to start offering optional parenting classes, with tax write-offs or health insurance deductions as an incentive. The earlier parents take them the better; courses during pregnancy could qualify for a hospital bill deduction...
WHAT HAPPENED: Ten years after its real estate bubble burst, the world's second-largest economy is a mess. Prices are falling, which means consumers won't buy, thinking goods will be cheaper next week. Banks are crushed by bad debts. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wants to reform the economy and let bankrupt firms go to the wall. Result: in the short term, more pain and record levels of unemployment...
...Should Chang's entire thesis be discarded? Maybe not. As Sidney Webb, a Fabian Society co-founder, once said: economists are "generally right in their predictions, but generally a good deal out on their dates." China's command capitalism is currently a mess, and repeated failures to sort it out could conceivably destroy public order one day. Perhaps Chang will be proven right?if we, including especially those party Neanderthals, wait long enough...
When conflict arises--and it will--try to remember that one day you may very well miss the mess. Barnes says that when the last of her five kids left home, she yearned for signs that they were still there. "I used to walk by their empty rooms and think, 'I wish I saw a crooked bedspread...