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BEWARE CHINESE BEARING GIFTS

Follow Me Mallory Factor Chinese Bearing Gifts Dec. 9 2010 By MALLORY FACTOR Remembering the famous story of the Trojan Horse, which appeared to be a gift to the city but was actually full of Greek soldiers waiting to seize Troy, the expression arose “beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” Several thousand years later, the tables […]

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EUROPE’S CRISIS WIDENS

DECEMBER 1, 2010 Italy, Spain See Bonds Sink, Portugal Faces Rating Cut as Faith in Rescue Ebbs By MARCUS WALKER And BRIAN BLACKSTONE Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesIn Rome, students protesting spending cuts clashed with police Investors dismissed European leaders’ latest attempt to restore market calm, raising doubts about whether governments can rebuild confidence in the region’s

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PERMANENT CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN THE EU

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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EU’S PREDICTABLE CRISIS

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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BOOK REVIEW – THE NEW ROAD TO SERFDOM

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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THE GERMANY THAT SAID NO TO OBAMA

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The stimulus pleas of the Obama administration fell on deaf ears in Berlin. Guess whose economy is growing faster. Christopher Caldwell November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 “You won’t find a lot of Keynesians here,” explained one German economic policymaker in Berlin in September. That will not be

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FOREIGN-POLICY SETBACKS DEEPEN OBAMA’S ELECTION WOUNDS

WASHINGTON POST Foreign-policy setbacks deepen Obama’s election wounds By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 19, 2010; 6:51 AM Presidents have often turned to foreign policy after domestic setbacks – from Ronald Reagan’s Latin American tour and speech calling the Soviet Union the “focus of evil in the modern world” in the months

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OBAMA’S AIR GUITAR

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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