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Clyde Prestowitz
President, Economic Strategy Institute
Clyde Prestowitz is founder and president of the Economic Strategy Institute. He has played key roles in achieving congressional passage of NAFTA and in shaping the final content of the Uruguay Round, as well as providing the intellectual basis for current U.S. trade policies toward Japan, China, and Korea. Before founding ESI, Prestowitz served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration, where he led U.S. trade and investment negotiations with Japan, China, Latin America, and Europe. He has served as vice-chairman of the President's Committee on Trade and Investment in the Pacific and sits on the Intel Policy Advisory Board and the U.S. Export-Import Bank Advisory Board.
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The United States will start to imitate the industrial and strategic trade policies of countries like China, Japan, Korea, Germany, and France. It will also begin to withdraw its overseas troops.
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Because heads of global companies are more responsive to the wishes of authoritarian regimes, authoritarian values are beginning to take hold in the U.S.
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The economist presents the “Prestowitz plan”—a to-do list for how we can play our cards better.
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The fact that we can just keep printing dollars allows us to be irresponsible. As a result, we over-consume, over-spend, and over-borrow.
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We’re depleting our resources and innovative energy in order to develop specialized products and technologies we don’t actually want to use.
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From 1800 to 1950, we acted, economically, the way China is acting today.
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A conversation with the President of the Economic Strategy Institute.