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Republicans Limp Out Of The Gate

Jan 4, 2012, 8:56 AM

I hate to rain on somebody’s parade, especially somebody I’ll probably support in November, but Republicans do not have much to crow about as they emerge from... Read »

The GOP Ticket in 2012: Romney-Rubio

Jan 3, 2012, 8:02 AM 1

Since my New Year’s prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running mate in 2012 (and Joe Biden would become Secretary of State), I’ve been... Read »

Eurozone: Why does the crisis linger, deepen and spread?

Jan 3, 2012, 6:24 AM 1

Another year, and the Eurozone crisis lingers on. This column asks why, and discusses what can be done. It proposes a solution that can be achieved without the pain... Read »

Krugman Takes on the Austrians and Ron Paul

Dec 16, 2011, 1:45 PM 14

Gee, hoodathunkitt? Paul Krugman hates Ron Paul. It is not enough for Dr. Paul to want to leave abortion to state legislatures (where the U.S. Constitution would... Read »

Do Eurozone Leaders Finally ‘Get It’? Not Quite Yet

Dec 5, 2011, 12:01 PM

This week’s announcements by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and ECB President Mario Draghi that the Eurozone is taking steps towards a closer fiscal union seem... Read »

The Ultimate Demise of the Euro is a Matter of When, Not If

Dec 5, 2011, 11:35 AM

The coordinated intervention of central banks calmed the European situation in the runup to 9 December EU summit, but the fundamentals of the situation have not... Read »

It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and Americans Feel Fine

Nov 21, 2011, 11:56 AM 3

When I was young, we would be assigned to read books like 1984 in high school.  These were viewed as dystopian novels, as cautionary tales.  We would have the... Read »

A Small End To A Small Movement

Nov 21, 2011, 9:10 AM

Big ideas attract a big following. Small ideas usually don’t. An estimated 450,000 residents of Communist-encircled West Berlin jammed the Rudolph Wilde Platz... Read »

For Occupy Wall Street, the End of the Beginning

Nov 16, 2011, 7:22 AM 1

From the beginning there are aspects of the Occupy Wall Street movement that have been widely misunderstood. With the current turmoil in New York City, these misunderstood... Read »

A Financial Coup d’etat in the Making?

Nov 11, 2011, 7:58 AM

It is said that the European Union is a remarkably inefficient organization in terms of organizing economic rescue packages, but when it comes to subverting democracy,... Read »

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