NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Obama’s Air Guitar The danger of America’s will to weakness. By BRET STEPHENS Lately in the news: Beijing provokes clashes with the navies of both Indonesia and Japan as part of a bid to claim the South China Sea. Tokyo is in a serious diplomatic row with Russia over the South Kuril […]
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Irish Resist EU’s Push to Accept a Rescue By MARCUS WALKER,BRIAN BLACKSTONE And NEIL SHAH Europe’s debt crisis entered a critical new phase as Ireland resisted pressure from the European Central Bank and national governments to seek a bailout amid growing concern that the currency bloc could unravel. Ireland fiercely denied that
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WASHINGTON TIMES The End of Multiculturalism October 18th, 2010 by Patrick J. Buchanan Is Europe’s adventure in international living about to end? At Potsdam, Germany, this weekend, Chancellor Angela Merkel told the young conservatives of her Christian Democratic Union that Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society where people “live side by side and enjoy
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 A Weakened Russia Looks to Europe By STEPHEN FIDLER The severe blow dealt to Russia by the West’s financial crisis is prompting a recalibration of Russia’s foreign policy. Among the ideas now surfacing in Moscow: a much closer relationship between Russia and the European Union. Mr. Putin attacked the West during a
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JUNE 26, 2010 The Keynesian Dead End Spending our way to prosperity is going out of style. Today’s G-20 meeting has been advertised as a showdown between the U.S. and Europe over more spending “stimulus,” and so it is. But the larger story is the end of the neo-Keynesian economic moment, and perhaps the start
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD A Predictable Crisis Europe’s single currency was bound to break down. BY Martin Feldstein June 14, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 37 The current crisis of the European single currency was an accident waiting to happen. The adverse consequences of imposing a single currency on a disparate group of countries were initially hidden
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Updated: Tue., May. 25, 2010, 12:54 AM Don’t mourn the euro By JOHN BOLTON Last Updated: 12:54 AM, May 25, 2010 Posted: 12:27 AM, May 25, 2010 The chaos in world financial markets over the stability of the euro calmed somewhat late last week. But the con ditions causing the European Union crisis — the
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Europe Is No Model The genius of American politics. BY Jeffrey Bergner May 17, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 33 Excerpt from article: “European politics is a slow engine of self-destruction. The question is not whether, but when, it will collapse.” As Europe is rocked by the Greek financial crisis, which seems likely to spread to
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Published Thu, May 13, 2010 02:00 AM Modified Thu, May 13, 2010 06:51 AM A dab of Grecian formula George Will WASHINGTON To understand the pertinence to America of events in Greece, notice General Motors’ most recent misbehavior. A television commercial featuring CEO Ed Whitacre demonstrates the institutional murkiness and intellectual dishonesty that result when
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MAY 8, 2010 The Markets Have Good Reasons To Be Nervous By ANDY KESSLER Nathan Rothschild famously quipped, “Buy when there is blood in the streets,” but he never said anything about firebombs thrown at Greek riot police, a trillion dollar easing of the money supply, or synthetic collateralized debt obligations. And so, after facing
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