Looking to the communists to save capitalism

Looking to the communists to save capitalism October 9, 2008

One of the hopes for the global financial meltdown is that China can save capitalism.

More likely, though, is that we will become like China, adopting its model of letting people make money under a state-controlled economy. In other words, letting people have wealth without freedom. I suspect that most Americans would be OK with that tradeoff.

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