It’s been a few weeks since I wrote here. While laziness explains some of my absence, a somewhat frightening, bizarre, and ultimately tragic episode that took place is mostly responsible. I’ll share it here since it sheds light on a problem that’s looming in China. For some background, I moved into a new place at the beginning ofContinue reading “When Anecdotes Happen to You”
Category Archives: China
While I’m Musing About China and the US…
A reminder from one of the most prolific writers on labor issues, Erik Loomis, that explosions don’t just happen in China and other developing countries. Almost two and a half years ago a fertilizer plant in West, Texas exploded and killed 15 people. Read Loomis’s piece for the policy issues involved.
I Love a Parade
President George W. Bush addresses sailors and the nation from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln of the coast of San Diego, California May 1, 2003. From [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/images/20030501-15_lincoln6-515h.html] {{PD- Here’s a good piece explaining what’s going on with China’s new Two Minutes Hate holiday kicking off tomorrow. Even though I recognize the genuine horrorContinue reading “I Love a Parade”
What’s Trump’s Deal with China?
First, click here and watch a fun mashup of Donald Trump saying “China” about a million times. Trump seems to have several issues with China, most of them wrong or confused. The weirdest one to me is that Trump seems convinced that China’s authoritarian rulers are technocratic supermen running circles around the US, laughing all the way to the bankContinue reading “What’s Trump’s Deal with China?”
Nonsense Consensus 