DECEMBER 1, 2010 Italy, Spain See Bonds Sink, Portugal Faces Rating Cut as Faith in Rescue Ebbs By MARCUS WALKER And BRIAN BLACKSTONE Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesIn Rome, students protesting spending cuts clashed with police Investors dismissed European leaders’ latest attempt to restore market calm, raising doubts about whether governments can rebuild confidence in the region’s […]
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THEBLAZE.COM Business WikiLeaks’ Next Target: Wall Street Posted on November 29, 2010 at 11:40pm by Meredith Jessup In an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange reportedly told Forbes that leaked classified documents from the U.S. State Department and Pentagon are “just the beginning.” Forbes reports that early next year, Assange claims that a major American bank
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NOVEMBER 30, 2010 Europe’s Single Debt Zone The permanent crisis-management fund will only make permanent crisis more likely. European Union finance ministers agreed late Sunday on more than just an €85 billion bailout for Ireland. They also turned the currency union into a de-facto debt union by choosing to turn May’s €750 billion rescue fund
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This insightful article was written in June of 2010 and gives an in depth analysis of why the EU is experiencing economic problems with their single currency. A Predictable Crisis Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s single currency was bound to break down. Martin Feldstein June 14, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 37 The current
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Tod Lindberg November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 No, this is not going to be a full-blown exercise in the fiction genre of Alternative History: A minor adviser to the 2008 McCain presidential campaign chronicles the day-to-day ups and downs of the two eventful years following the American
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The stimulus pleas of the Obama administration fell on deaf ears in Berlin. Guess whose economy is growing faster. Christopher Caldwell November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 “You won’t find a lot of Keynesians here,” explained one German economic policymaker in Berlin in September. That will not be
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LETTERS NOVEMBER 18, 2010 ‘Refudiation’ of $600 Billion Printed Out of Thin Air While on a United Airlines flight from New York City to Los Angeles this week, a fellow passenger handed me a copy of the The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15 op-ed by Alan Blinder—”In Defense of Ben Bernanke“—and suggested that I write
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November 17, 2010 Cities Face a Deepening Fiscal Crisis By Steven Malanga The steep fiscal crisis that many states face includes staggering retirement costs for their workers, estimated at some $3 trillion in unfunded future promises. The size of those liabilities has already shaken up some municipal bond investors, and the inadequate, sometimes misleading way
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NOVEMBER 17, 2010 Who better to host the debate over sound money in Congress than the Fed’s most persistent critic? By SETH LIPSKY One of the most exciting features of the new Congress is the prospect that the chairmanship of a House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve will go to Ron Paul. Final assignments
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NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Some born again reformers were once the company’s defenders. A major task for the next Congress will be rewriting the laws governing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and House Republicans have now won a seat at that table. Which makes it all the more important that their seat not be occupied by
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