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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It Can Happen Here Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) It Can Happen Here American government goes European Roger Kimball November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 The New Road to Serfdom A Letter of Warning to America by Daniel Hannan HarperCollins, 224 pp., $24.99 In September I was part of a conference in England
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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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