With Gulliver Asleep, The Lilliputians Are Almost Done Smothering The U.S. Economy Jonathan Swift’s classic novel Gulliver’s Travels—and in particular the novel’s first section in which the tiny Lilliputians succeeded in immobilizing Gulliver by binding him with thousands of their tiny, threadlike ropes—serves as a literary metaphor for today’s American economy. While our friends on the left may complain that it is hyperbolic and chauvinistic to describe the American economy ...
June 20, 2013 - Forbes
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June 16, 2013 - Tulsa World