FORBES by Steve Forbes Fact and Comment For Whom The Greek Bell Tolls 07.18.11 Given its rich mercantile heritage in the Mediterranean, Greece should be the Hong Kong/Singapore/ Switzerland of the Balkans. Its emigrants and their descendants have been huge business successes in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere. Yet Greece is bankrupt,
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THE DAILY CALLER By James Poulos James Poulos is the host of The Bottom Line and Reform School on PJTV. A doctoral candidate in Government at Georgetown University, he holds degrees from Duke and USC Law. His writing has appeared in The American Conservative, The Boston Globe, Cato Unbound, The National Interest, and The Weekly
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JUNE 24, 2011 I was tried for a thought crime despite being an elected politician and the leader of the third-largest party in the Dutch parliament. By GEERT WILDERS Mr. Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and the leader of the Party for Freedom Yesterday was a beautiful day for freedom of speech
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What America needs is a better class of left-winger. David Gelernter June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The outrage of the left can turn into nihilism, meanness, hatred; and has. We know all about what Obamacrats don’t like. It’s time for them to ask
JUNE 20, 2011 Postwar Jewish refugees left everything they had in Europe—no ‘right of return’ requested. By WARREN KOZAK EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Golda Meir is credited with having said that if the Jews had not fought back against the Arab armies and had been destroyed in 1948, they would have received the most beautiful
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JUNE 17, 2011 The longer banks hold rotten paper, the likelier a second financial crisis becomes. By John H. Cochrane And Anil Kashyap Greek debt is in trouble—again. After a month of dickering, it seems likely that the International Monetary Fund and the European Union will agree to roll over Greece’s debt so bondholders will
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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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