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...sure, there's no denying the facts. The U.S. is the world's largest debtor nation and only digging itself in deeper. Respect for corporate America is evaporating. Profligacy produced sham economic growth. A disconnect between Washington's global ambitions and its available resources - what British historian Paul Kennedy calls "imperial overstretch" - has undermined national strength...
...There is no doubt that China is the world's next superpower, but we sometimes forget that this is a nation that can't make safe milk, and where activists vanish from their homes. Look at how China exerts its new global influence - by backing some of the world's most odious regimes, in North Korea, Sudan and Burma. Most pundits mistakenly praise the Chinese system as blindly as they criticize the American one. Many economists ignore China's immense problems that could undermine Chinese growth in the future...
...warning of the precarious state of the Chinese economy, Wen was expressing concerns about the nation's very risky macro bet. With nearly 80% of its GDP going to exports and fixed investment, China had become overly reliant on cross-border trade and on the investments required to support the logistics and capacity of its increasingly powerful export machine. Not only has China slowed dramatically - with export growth turning sharply negative in late 2008 and industrial output growth slipping into the low single digits - but the rest of an increasingly China-centric Asian economy has been quick to follow...
...nation whose citizens pride themselves on self-reliance, the U.S. doles out an awful lot of welfare. Corporations get it. Farmers get it. Even poor people get it. But no other interest group makes out quite the way homeowners do. They - or we, I should say, for I'm a homeowner too - are at the receiving end of a truly staggering array of subsidies and tax breaks. Putting an exact price tag on all of them is impossible, but the value is clearly in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year...
...escaping bondage proved to be only half the story. After the Israelites arrive in the desert, they face a period of lawlessness, which prompts the Ten Commandments. Only by rallying around the new order can the people become a nation. Freedom depends...