China s Construction Fetish

China s Financial Fetish

Some guy with a phone fetish.

One option is the fast food fetish.

Some still wear the witch doctor's fetish around their necks.

I'd rather he'd given me that fetish from around his neck.

Monnet was a born technocrat, who hated political conflict and almost made a fetish of unity.

But the manufacturing fetish recurs repeatedly, the latest manifestation being in the United States in the wake of the recent crisis.

The Kremlin, devoted to its key fetish Putin s approval ratings proved completely unprepared to curtail public spending in the wake of falling state revenues.

Shorn of support from economists, the financial industry will have a much harder time preventing the fetish of free finance from being tossed into the dustbin of history.

While these episodes reflected academic obsession with manufactures and therefore died early deaths, the same cannot be said for the latest revival of the manufactures fetish in the US and Great Britain.

Monnet was a born technocrat, who hated political conflict and almost made a fetish of unity. (In 1940, when Hitler seemed indomitable, Monnet suggested to Winston Churchill that France and Britain might be rolled into one country.)

It is when this becomes crystal clear, and also when some worn out foreign policy paradigms, such as the fetish of a two state solution for the Israeli Palestinian conflict fail once again, that real choices will have to be made.

The fetish is particularly rampant in the US, where the Democrats in Congress have gone so far as to ally themselves with lobbyists for manufactures to pass legislation that would provide protection and subsidies to increase the share of manufactures in GDP.