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Conor Clarke - Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. More

Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism, an economics blog that was recently published in book form by Simon and Schuster. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. He is also on Twitter.
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Preparing for Economic Warfare with China

By Conor Clarke

Apr 9 2009, 11:02 AM ET Comment

The Pentagon is running a new war-game scenario:

But instead of military brass plotting America's defense, it was hedge-fund managers, professors and executives from at least one investment bank, UBS - all invited by the Pentagon to play out global scenarios that could shift the balance of power between the world's leading economies.

The article suggests that the United States is defeated by China in at least one such scenario. 


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