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PostPosted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:09 am    Post subject: Good-bye Dubai? Reply with quote

A long, but quite balanced analysis of the collapse which includes a review of 3 current books.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/aug/19/good-bye-dubai/?pagination=false
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same story as 'Good-Bye Uncle Sam'! Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup... the American Empire is following that of the British... down the tubes... those who don't learn from history are bound to repeat it.

But Dubai is not the same thing at all... one city run by one man whose vision outran his common sense and pocketbook. It was a very short run...

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jes' because one cat hears another caterwauling in the darkness doesn't necessarily mean that it has to respond...

NCTBA (No Cat To Be Acknowledged?)
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

great article, as is almost always the case with the New York Review.
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