Web sources first for Eamonn Fingleton's work and, further down, recommmended links for further information on the trade policy disaster.

Fingleton: Ten Key Web Links 

1. Speaking to the Christian Science Monitor in November 1999, Fingleton issued one of the most prescient warnings about  America's coming dot.com stock crash of any economic commentator.  

 http://www.csmonitor.com/1999/1108/p16s2.html

 2. Almost alone among Tokyo-based commentators in the run-up to the Iraq war, Fingleton warned that post-Saddam Iraq would not play out like post-World War II Japan.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/03/18/a9_11.php

 3. "Boeing, Boeing....Gone," Eamonn Fingleton's 2005  article exposing what outsourcing has been doing to the American aerospace industry.

http://www.jpri.org/members/BoeingFingleton.pdf

4. Business Week's nomination of Blindside as one of the best books of 1999.

http://www.businessweek.com/1995/51/b345529.htm

5. "Life After Wartime" by Eamonn Fingleton in the American Prospect,  2006.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=life_after_wartime

 6. "Unsustainable," by Eamonn Fingleton (a cover story published in the August 2000 issue of the American Prospect -- and posted on the web in 2002 -- from which Unsustainable.org gets its  name). 

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=unsustainable

7. "The Other Deficit"  by Eamonn Fingleton in the Atlantic, 2002.    http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200204/fingleton

8.  "Manufacturing Matters," by Eamonn Fingleton in  Fortune magazine, March 2006.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/03/06/8370712/index.htm

9. "Who Glossed China?" by Eamonn Fingleton in the American Prospect, 2006.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=who_glossed_china

10. "The New Economy's Troubling Trade Gap" by Eamonn Fingleton in the
Harvard Business Review, 1999.

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/search/searchResults.jhtml

 The Trade Debate: Recommended Links

1. American Prospect 

Founded by Robert Kuttner, Paul Starr, and Robert Reich in 1990, the American Prospect has consistently led the debate on the American trade disaster.

www.prospect.org

2. Pat Choate

Ross Perot's running mate in the 1996 Presidential election and America's leading expert on how foreign agents have infiltrated the American trade policymaking process, Choate is the author most recently of Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/050620/20eeguru.htm

3. Fallows Blog

Recently based in Beijing, James Fallows has been one of the most prescient observers of the unfolding American trade disaster. His record as an authority goes back to the  1980s, when he moved to Tokyo with his family to study East Asian economics on the spot.  

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/

4. The U.S. Business and Industry Council

Featuring expert commentaries by Alan Tonelson and William Hawkins and headed by Kevin Kearns, a former U.S. diplomat who played a leading role in the Japan trade wars of the early 1990s, USBIC is one of the Washington think-tanks that have consistently and presciently focused American policymakers' attention on the trade disaster.

http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/

5. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur

Representing an industrial district in Toledo, Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is unrivalled both in her understanding of the issues and her intellectual honesty in fighting vested interests on behalf of American industrial workers.

http://www.kaptur.house.gov/

6. Senator Byron Dorgan

Senator Dorgan insists that foreign trade must be fair and mutually beneficial trade. A hawk on  closed foreign markets, he insists that American companies must be prevented from moving U.S. jobs overseas to take advantage of lower foreign environmental standards.

http://dorgan.senate.gov/issues/economy/trade/

7. Senator Jim Webb

Recipient of the  Navy Cross for outstanding bravery in Vietnam,  Senator Webb is a leader of American efforts to secure a more balanced trade relationship with China.

http://webb.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=291559

8. Lou Dobbs

CNN's Lou Dobbs has the been preeminent voice in alerting the broad mass of the American public to the errors of Washington's China trade policy.

http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

9. American Conservative

Founded in 2002 by Patrick Buchanan and Scott McConnell and best known for its from-the-get-go opposition to the Iraq war, the American Conservative is also a respected source of commonsense on trade policy. 

www.amconmag.com

10. United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission

The one arm of the U.S. government that closely tracks China's rise and has consistently raised the alarm about inadequate U.S. trade policies.  Commission members include Larry M. Wortzel, Patrick Mulloy, and Carolyn Bartholomew.

http://www.uscc.gov/

11. Robert Kuttner

Author of The Squandering of America, Kuttner has  long ranked as the economics profession's most accomplished critic of laissez faire policies and "one-way free trade."

http://www.squanderingofamerica.com/about.cfm

12. Lori Wallach

Director of Global Trade Watch (an arm of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen), Lori Wallach has long been one of the most resourceful and spirited advocates of commonsense on trade.

www.publiccitizen.org/trade

13. American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition

Headed by Auggie Tantillo, AMTAC has been a leader in the effort to press Beijing to revalue the Chinese yuan.

www.amtacdc.org

14. Ernest F. Hollings

Now retired, Senator Fritz Hollings, a Democratic Presidential contender in 1984,  has worked harder for longer -- and with more distinction -- than anyone else in the U.S. trade policy field.  He does not have a web site but his remarkable career is summarized at Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hollings

15. Government Accountability Office

David M. Walker, the Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), has been fighting from the inside to end the U.S. government's profligate fiscal policies.

www.gao.gov

16. Chalmers Johnson

A veteran East Asia watcher, Johnson has in recent years become a best selling author  on American decline. 

www.jpri.org

17. Alliance for American Manufacturing

Headed by Scott Paul, AAM is known particularly for its fight to ensure a level playing field in the global steel market.

http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/