9.19.2011

One thing the all-powerful free markets don't seem to be doing to well at

How Fast Can China Go? | Business | Vanity Fair

Half a dozen of these beasts were lined up beside one another, raring to go, like greyhounds at the starting gate waiting for the rabbit. One snubbier-nosed CRH3C engine was huddled between the others—German-engineered, slower, but (as one English-speaking man on the platform remarked to me, boastfully) still faster than anything known in America today.

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