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Can We Just Take Globalization Out Back And Shoot It In The Back of the Head?

My apologies for not having written for so long. I have been “otherwise pre-occupied” and have also been watching the first weeks of the Obama presidency and the accelerating unwinding of the financial markets. The situation looks... ...full story at China Vortex

from China Vortex on Fri, Jan 30 2009

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