Volume 36, Number 5 · March 30, 1989
Do We Have What It Takes?
By Andrew Hacker
More Like Us: Making America Great Again
by James Fallows
Houghton Mifflin, 245 pp., $18.95
As we now know to our shame, the US, once the world's prime industrial power, is now the largest debtor in international trade. Of the 110 countries listed in our published accounts, we ran a deficit with seventy-one of them. As the table on the facing page shows, in only three exchanges among our twenty top trading partners was the surplus on our side.
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