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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 »

What Happened to the MF Global Customer Funds?

Nov 10, 2011, 8:27 AM

How is that $600+ million of customer funds disappears from a bankrupt brokerage firm and it is not THE perpetual lead story in every financial periodical? I know... Read »

What is Holding Italy Back?

Nov 9, 2011, 6:35 AM

Italy’s debt crisis has caused political upheaval. What can be done to cure the country’s decade-old growth slump? Since Italy’s capital investment, educational... Read »

What Really Caused the Eurozone Crisis? (Part 1)

Sep 22, 2011, 3:03 PM 2

I’ve been doing some work on gaining a better understanding of the root causes of eurozone (EZ) debt crisis. As a point of departure, let’s take a couple... Read »

Wall Street Bracing for Another Round of Insider Trading Charges

Sep 14, 2011, 2:23 PM

Attorneys representing potential targets of the government’s wide-ranging investigation into insider trading are bracing for another round of charges, the FOX... Read »

Euro Benefited Germany More than Others in Zone

Sep 9, 2011, 1:22 PM

The euro benefited Germany more than others in the zone. Germany exported and won, the others had to import German goods and lost  (link). This seems to be a consensus... Read »

Let’s-Continue-the-Depression Speech

Sep 9, 2011, 7:53 AM

We arrived in the USA at about 1 p.m. Thursday, got through customs, picked up our van, and navigated the traffic through New York and finally reached our hotel... Read »

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