"The government forces state-owned or state-controlled firms to absorb losses that analysts say are now running at up to $10 a barrel on
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Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter could have stood to learn that 30 years ago, and China's leaders could learn from their mistakes today.
David Donadio is a writer and editor at the Cato Institute in Washington.adobe Acrobat