INVESTORS’ BUSINESS DAILY June 9, 2011 Europe Is Warning Us By Victor Davis Hanson ROME — If Americans think fuel and food prices are high, they should try Europe, where both can nearly double those in the United States — while salaries here are often lower. Italians, like most now-broke Southern European countries, are desperate […]
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JUNE 6, 2011 By JOHN W. MILLER Getty ImagesLi Shufu, chairman of China’s Geely, which bought Volvo cars from Ford, seen at Tiananmen Square in March. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Experts are predicting a surge of overseas takeovers by Chinese companies over the next decade. A five-year plan Beijing approved in March calls for establishing
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MAY 28, 2011 The Gates Farewell Warning America can be a superpower or a welfare state, but not both. Robert Gates, who steps down next month after four-plus years at the Pentagon, is making his retirement lap a tutorial on America’s defense spending and security needs. His message is welcome, especially on Memorial Day, and
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MAY 20, 2011 As Socialists Risk Losing Key Areas, Economists Fear ‘Hidden’ Bills By JONATHAN HOUSE And SARA SCHAEFER MUñOZ ReutersDemonstrators fill up Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol in a protest against authorities’ handling of the economic crisis on Thursday. MADRID—Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions
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MAY 13, 2011 Screams in Homs but forbearance around the world. Hearty salutations and reassurances from Damascus. After killing more than 600 (and counting) and arresting and injuring thousands more in a seven week crackdown, the Syrian regime wants you to know that it thinks it has the upper hand over protestors. And Bashar Assad
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The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Libya and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea
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May 11, 2011 By Desmond Lachman The European sovereign debt crisis is now entering a critical phase, which U.S. economic policymakers would be ignoring at their peril. For this crisis has the real potential for delivering the severest of body blows to an already enfeebled European banking system. And if there is one thing that
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Sandstorms Barack Obama and the Great Arab Revolt. Reuel Marc Gerecht May 9, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 32 We may never know whether the conjecture of the historian Fouad Ajami is correct: that President Barack Obama sought the approval of the Arab League for the air war against Muammar
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner The Libyan Boomerang By Victor Davis Hanson Posted on April 27, 2011 5:13 PM In theory, Libya was supposed to save lives, use the military for humanitarianism rather than mere national interests, showcase a new multilateral internationalism, enhance the reputations of organizations like the U.N. and the Arab League,
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