It’s Saturday in Samoa. The country, which pretended it was east* of the International Date Line to appease pushy Americans finds that its economy is now more Asian than American, and decided to skip Friday entirely this year to get in sync with the people who make the Pacific happen these days. The NYT has all the details.
Picked up from Felix Salmon’s “Counterparties,” which has lots of good links this morning.
*“East” as seen from near-by Australia, though “west” as seen from faraway California. East is west if you travel far enough, and life is death. Happy trails!
