Volume 38, Number 18 · November 7, 1991
The Romance with Mexico
By James Fallows
The New North American Order: A Win-Win Strategy for US-Mexico Trade
by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., by Robert B. Cohen, with Peter A. Morici, by Alan Tonelson
University Press of America/Economic Strategy Institute, 134 pp., $14.00 (paper)
The Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth: The Labor Cost-Productivity Imbalance in Newly Industrialized Countries
by Walter Russell Mead
Economic Policy Institute, 48 pp., $12.00
US Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal
by Jeff Faux, by William Spriggs
Economic Policy Institute, 9 pp., $5.00
Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Administration's Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico
by Jeff Faux, by Richard Rothstein
Economic Policy Institute, 29 pp., $5.00
The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy after the Cold War
by Robert Kuttner
Knopf, 304 pp., $22.95
In Southern California during the 1960s, twirling the AM radio dial could be an adventure. In addition to the mainstream stations, like KNX and KFI, broadcasting at the normal 'clear-channel' power of 50,000 watts, every now and then you would hit a station so powerful that it could make the whole radio shake, like a boom box before its time. When this happened, it meant that you had encountered the 'Big X,' a station that blasted English-language programming from towers in Tijuana to the huge market north of the border. There must have been some schedule and regularity to the Big X's broadcasts, but at the time it seemed that they would show up at unpredictable hours and positions on the dial, drowning out stations that were normally there. In its heyday the Big X had featured the legendary disk jockey Wolfman Jack, who was later depicted at a station in central California in the movie American Graffiti.
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