What the U.S. Can Learn from China

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Introduction: A New Year’s Resolution

1. David Pendery, press release, February 27, 2009, “Three Top Economists Agree 2009 Worst Financial Crisis Since Great Depression; Risks Increase if Right Steps Are Not Taken,” http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/27/idUS193520+27-Feb-2009+BW20090227.

2. Nikki Schwab, “A National Crisis of Confidence,” U.S. News & World Report, November 12, 2007.

3. Ellen Kelleher, “Americans Forfeit Citizenship to Avoid Tax,” Financial Times, July 17, 2010.

4. Lydia Saad, “More Americans Say U.S. a Nation of Haves and Have-nots,” Gallup Poll, July 11, 2008; Jodie T. Allen and Michael Dimock, “A Nation of ‘Haves’ and ‘Have Nots’?: Far More Americans Now See Their Country as Sharply Divided ...