Thomas L. Friedman: Debts will soon force US to listen more, dictate less (Arizona Daily Star)

I was talking to friend in New York City the other day about the financial crisis, and she told me about a scene she had witnessed in the lobby of the Warwick Hotel. Four Swedish tourists, who clearly had been on a shopping spree in Manhattan, fueled by the still cheap dollar, were trying to cram all their purchases into four suitcases. They had bought a hand-held scale — one of those you grip ...