REAL CLEAR POLITICS Published: June 1, 2012 By MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist letters@ocregister.com The Eurovision Song Contest doesn’t get a lot of attention in the United States, but on the Continent it’s long been seen as the perfect Euro-metaphor. Years before the euro came along, it was the prototype pan-European institution and predicated on the […]
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May 15, 2012, Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot. By BRET STEPHENS Readers presumably understand that Europe’s economic crisis is also the crisis of social democracy—of the idea that markets must be made to co-exist with high levels of taxation, regulation, unionization,
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May 14, 2012 By Warren Beatty Will Obama learn from Sweden? Will he learn from Canada? Or will he cling to the European socialist economic model that is currently failing? Sweden Anders Borg, Sweden’s finance minister, reduced Sweden’s deficit and created economic growth. There is one thing that Borg did: “Since becoming Sweden’s finance minister,
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Chart: ‘America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece’ Daniel Halper February 23, 2012 11:21 AM The office of Senator Jeff Sessions, ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, sends along this chart, showing that ‘America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece,’ as well as Ireland, Italy, France,
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FEBRUARY 14, 2012 What happens to countries that choose economic decline. Rioters torched shops and offices, with banks and foreign businesses the main targets. Pensioners wearing gas masks joined a blockade of Parliament and squared off against some 4,000 police officers. The city’s best-known cinema was burned to the ground, along with nine other national-heritage
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January 19, 2012 Civilization in Reverse By Victor Davis Hanson EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Now, as in Greece, the veneer of civilization is proving pretty thin in California. Hospitals no longer have the money to offer sophisticated long-term medical care to the indigent. Cities no longer have the funds to self-insure themselves from the accustomed
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NIGEL FARAGE ADDRESSES THE EU AND BLUNTLY SPEAKS HIS MIND ABOUT FAILINGS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
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DECEMBER 28, 2011 When is a loan between central banks not a loan? When it is a dollars-for-euros currency swap. By GERALD P. O’DRISCOLL JR.Mr. O’Driscoll, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, was vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and later at Citigroup. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: First, the Fed has
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DECEMBER 16, 2011 And the Crisis Winner Is? Government From Greece to Washington to New York state, there’s no effective mechanism to control spending. By DAVID MALPASS Mr. Malpass, a deputy assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan administration, is president of Encima Global LLC EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Governments on both sides of the Atlantic
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ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, CARTER’S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ON MSNBC, DEC 2, 2011 U.S. AMONG THE MOST SOCIALLY UNJUST NATIONS WORLDWIDE Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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