MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
This week The Atlantic published its list of the most important graphs and charts of 2013. Notice that they're almost all macroeconomic stuff - QE, inequality, debt health costs, etc. Macro is eating the world. I tried to do something different, claiming that the Tea Party Republicans' near-success in causing a U.S. sovereign default was the most significant economic story of the year.
But actually, I think there might be another even more important chart, and I didn't pick it because I'm not sure yet how important it's going to be. It definitely has the potential to be much more important than any of the stories listed in The Atlantic. Here it is:
This is a picture of China's new "air defense zone", which is part of China's attempt to claim the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands currently held by Japan.
Comments
The idea that China wants to provoke a "limited" war with Japan over the Senkakus
is ludicrous. The risk of WW III over this little bit of territorial jostling is zero.
by acanuck on Thu, 12/19/2013 - 4:45am