Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

WHEN I lived in Tokyo in the early 1960s, there were any number of U.S. business people there awaiting the day when they could have access to the Chinese market. Richard Nixon eventually gave us that access and now we're all in hock to China's government-run "market" economy, a kind of state capitalism. But in this story is one good reason to never, ever buy anything made in China. No, the free market does not make you free.

Meanwhile, author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich tells us that, more and more, it is a crime in America to be poor.

Speaking of things that probably originated in China:

"rankaku triptych" (eggshell inlay in encasutic) 2009

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