Japan's Bad Trade
Fingleton, Eamonn, The American Conservative
Why won t anyone talk about Tokyo's auto protectionism?
Mitt Romney was in his element a few years ago as the Obama administration struggled to rescue the Detroit auto industry. In an eat-your-spinach tone, he ticked off his recommendations for reform. Top management should go, executive dining rooms should be shut, and factory wages slashed. Then there were the industry's "legacy costs": given how drastically Detroit's market share had shrunk in the face of rampant imports, retiree entitlements had come to account for as much as $2,000 per car. Countless retirees would just have to be thrown overboard.
Whatever the merits and demerits of Romney s lengthy list, it contained a …
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Publication information:
Article title: Japan's Bad Trade.
Contributors: Fingleton, Eamonn - Author.
Magazine title: The American Conservative.
Volume: 11.
Issue: 10
Publication date: October 2012.
Page number: 22+.
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