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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
Andrew Browne gets China: The key is America’s response
September 28, 2016
Andrew Browne, my favorite commentator on China, nails it when he says, in his last paragraph, that the United States possesses “extraordinary advantages” with its patents, license fees, university system and other key ingredients of innovation. As I have argued for decades, the key response to China starts at home. Do we choose to maintain […]
One pragmatic way Americans can create wealth.
September 27, 2016
Shoulder to Shoulder: How Big and Small Companies Push Growth by Working Together
USA Today Joins the “False Equivalence” Debate
September 19, 2016
Michael Wolff, a columnist for USA Today, weighed in on the debate about media coverage of the presidential election. I and others have framed this as a debate of “false equivalence:” how can the media give even-handed coverage to two candidates of such dramatically different records and temperments? Wolff took great delight in how Times […]
The “false equivalency” argument spreads like wild fire
September 15, 2016
It’s amazing how social media has accelerated the transmission of certain ideas. I blogged last Friday criticizing the media for treating allegations against Hillary Clinton the same way they treat the outrages that Donald Trump commits and continues to commit. I used the phrase “false equivalence.” I had never heard it before. I thought I […]
The New York Times responds to “false equivalence” argument
September 12, 2016
New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd must have written this piece before I posted my blog on Friday decrying the media’s insistence on “false equivalence,” the presumption that what Hillary Clinton did with her email server was in any way comparable to Donald Trump’s refusal to release his income tax statements or a range […]
The American Media’s Dangerous Game of False Equivalency
September 9, 2016
Having been a journalist for nearly four decades, I understand that the media wants to appear to be even-handed. So American news organizations are establishing that there are equivalent issues on both sides of the presidential election campaign. But they aren’t equivalent. They are false equivalents. Take the two big issues that the media harps on regarding […]
