Asian Miracle II; CHINA; A Difficult Journey to a New Economy
By James Flanigan Los Angeles Times June 7, 1998 To begin to grasp the full import and direction of the changes occurring in China today, visit the Beijing Yanhua Petrochemical Co. at a sprawling...
View ArticleThe Peso’s Plunge: A Case of Deja Vu
By James Flanigan Los Angeles Times January 8, 1995 By now, it’s a familiar story. Mexico rises toward world-class development. And then disaster strikes. Why does it keep dashing its own best hopes?...
View ArticleChange Could Turn Mideast Into an Economic Superstar
By James Flanigan Los Angeles Times June 30, 1991 Americans looking at news reports might think that little has changed in the Middle East as a result of the Gulf War. Saddam Hussein, although reduced...
View ArticleREVIEW: ‘Smile, Southern California, You’re the Center of the Universe’
By James Srodes The Washington Times March 1, 2009 Those who have read financial journalist James Flanigan over his 40-year career recognize his hallmark. It is an intense curiosity not just about what...
View ArticleThe priests, the nuns and the people
By James Flanigan National Catholic Reporter February 17, 2009 In the recent film “Doubt,” set in 1964, Fr. Brendan Flynn, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, pastor of a parish in the Bronx, wants to...
View ArticleWebcast of 3/24/09 Milken Institute Event
James Flanigan appeared at the Milken Institute on March 24, 2009, to speak about why Southern California remains one of the most economically vital and innovative regions in the country. View a...
View ArticleSmile Southern California Featured on the Globalist.com
“Los Angeles, a city brimming with immigrants, may hold many lessons on diversity and tolerance for the rest of the United States. In an excerpt from his book, “Smile Southern California, You’re the...
View ArticleJames Flanigan Interviewed by MuniNetGuide
“MuniNetGuide recently turned to James Flanigan, seasoned journalist and author of Smile Southern California, You’re the Center of the Universe: The Economy and People of a Global Region (Stanford...
View ArticleTranscript of 4th of July Speech
My subject on this Independence Day morning is the schools, our public schools. The history of the 233 years and more of the United States of America can be seen in many critical ways in the history...
View ArticleAuthor makes grieving a preparation for living
Reviewed by James Flanigan GRIEVING WITH GRACE: A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE By Dolores R. Leckey Published by St. Anthony Messenger Press, $11.95 This book is different from many accounts of grieving and...
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