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EU Crisis

Lessons from the Botched EU Bailout and other TARP Follies

May 17, 2010

Ordinary people from Athens to Little Rock have had it with a bloated system where politicians take care of themselves, along with insiders and powerful interests when they run amok, and leave the public to scrimp, sacrifice and struggle to pay more debt. As we predicted, the stock-lifting EUporia over the European rescue plan that [...]

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Eurozone’s Response to Greece is the Real Contagion

May 12, 2010

In a way, we have all become Greece.  The common element to democratic countries everywhere is a willingness to allow public debt and deficits to gallop out of control and to permit politicians to ride those horses to the edge of financial oblivion as they promise a better world all along the way. Is the [...]

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Lessons from Europe’s Past for an Uneasy World Today

May 8, 2010

What is happening in Greece and elsewhere in Europe should cause leaders to recall how easily the  seeds of disaster are  sewn amid the winds of resentment and desperation. Sixty-five years ago, the Allied forces accepted the unconditional surrender of the German military regime, bringing an end to the war in Europe.  It took formal [...]

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