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EUROPEAN CRISIS DEEPENS

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blogs.the-american-interest.comhttp://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/18/european-crisis-deepens/ European Crisis Deepens | Via Meadia The bad news just keeps coming. Coming close on the recent revelation that economic growth is slowing faster than expected in France and Germany, British labor figures have disappointed forecasters and it seems that Greece is heading for yet another recession despite optimistic predictions to the contrary. A familiar […]

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CULTURE ROT – MARK STEYN – LONDON IN FLAMES

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Mark Steyn: Lessons for us from London in flames By MARK STEYN 2011-08-12 11:30:43 The trick in this business is not to be right too early. A week ago I released my new book – the usual doom ‘n’ gloom stuff – and, just as the sensible prudent moderate chaps were about to dismiss it

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CULTURE ROT – AFTER THE LONDON RIOTS – PEGGY NOONAN

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AUGUST 13, 2011 Après le Déluge, What? Riots and flash mobs have root causes that government can’t reach. By PEGGY NOONAN The riots in Britain left some Americans shaken. In the affluence of the past 40 years, and with the rise of the jumbo jet, we became a nation of travelers. We have been to

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A SHORT COURSE IN ITALIAN ECONOMICS

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AUGUST 10, 2011 The Parthenon in Rome A short course in Italian economics. The European Central Bank has now stepped in to shore up Italian bond prices. Yet Europe’s political establishment seems amazed that investors have suddenly soured on Italy’s debt. “It is not as if the fundamentals of the Italian or Spanish economies have

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EURO DREAM THREATENS TO BECOME NIGHTMARE

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IrishTimes.com DAN O’BRIEN Sat, Aug 06, 2011 ANALYSIS: LAST WEEKEND the world’s attention was on Washington DC as America’s politicians peered into the abyss of sovereign default. On Sunday they stepped back. This weekend attention is on Rome and Madrid. Politicians in those two capitals are sliding towards the same abyss. But there is a

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GLOBAL SELLOFF – AUGUST 4, 2011

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AUGUST 5, 2011 Stocks Nose-Dive Amid Global Fears Weak Outlook, Government Debt Worries Drive Dow’s Biggest Point Drop Since ’08 By TOM LAURICELLA Stocks spiraled downward Thursday as investors buckled under the strain of the global economic slowdown and the failure of policy makers to stabilize financial markets. The selling began in Europe and continued

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BARACK OBAMA THE PESSIMIST

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AUGUST 1, 2011 His lack of faith in American exceptionalism has dashed any hope of a ‘transformational’ presidency. By FOUAD AJAMI In one of the illuminating, unscripted moments of the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said—much to the dismay of his core constituency—that the Reagan presidency had been “transformational” in a way that Bill Clinton’s

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WE NEED A NEW PRESIDENT

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JULY 27, 2011 The Antidote for Socialism We’ll have to wait for 2012, because this administration won’t administer it. By PETE DU PONT Last year I wrote that the enactment of ObamaCare meant “the Europeanization of America is coming to pass, for individual choice and opportunity are being replaced by statism.” That law is transferring

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EUROPEAN COUNTRIES – TAX AND SPEND

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Neil Reynolds With government spending, virtue hath its own rewards NEIL REYNOLDS | Columnist profile | E-mail From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 2:00AM EDT In 1900, the governments of the world’s most advanced economies taxed and spent, on average, 10 per cent of respective GDP each year. By 2000, they

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