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Eamonn Fingleton: Economic Insights Expert

Eamonn Fingleton is a former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times who spent 27 years monitoring East Asian economics from Tokyo. He accurately predicted the 1987 Tokyo banking crash and warned in several books that the US was losing its manufacturing leadership to countries like Japan. His books also anticipated the 2000 Internet stock crash and the risks of new financial instruments. In his most recent book, he challenged views that China is becoming more like the West economically and politically. His books have been widely translated and praised for their insights.

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Eamonn Fingleton: Economic Insights Expert

Eamonn Fingleton is a former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times who spent 27 years monitoring East Asian economics from Tokyo. He accurately predicted the 1987 Tokyo banking crash and warned in several books that the US was losing its manufacturing leadership to countries like Japan. His books also anticipated the 2000 Internet stock crash and the risks of new financial instruments. In his most recent book, he challenged views that China is becoming more like the West economically and politically. His books have been widely translated and praised for their insights.

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Fingleton bio A former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times , Eamonn Fingleton spent 27 years monitoring

East Asian economics from a base in Tokyo . In September 1987 he issued the first of several predictions of the Tokyo banking crash and went on in "Blindside," a controversial 1995 analysis that was praised by John Kenneth Galbraith and Bill Clinton, to show that a heedless America was fast losing its formerly vaunted leadership in advanced manufacturing -- and particularly in so-called producers' goods -- to Japan. His 1999 book "In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity " anticipated the American Internet stock crash of 2000 and offered an early warning about the abuse of new financial instruments. In his 2008 book "In the Jaws of the Dragon: Americas Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Hegemony," he challenged the conventional view that China is converging to Western economic and political values. His books have been translated into French, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. They have been r ead into the U.S. Senate record and named among the ten best business books of the year by Business Week and [Link]. [Link]

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