JANUARY 7, 2011 Ou Est Le ‘Cash for Clunkers’? Not surprisingly, the idea of subsidizing new cars came from France. By VICTOR DIAL Many countries in Europe are reporting improved auto sales in December, thanks to a last-minute rush by consumers to take advantage of yet another “Cash for Clunkers” program. So look for poor […]
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NEW YORK POST January 6, 2011 Charles Gasparino I Have seen the future, and it doesn’t work. Don’t get me wrong: New Year’s in beautiful Barcelona was a blast. Spain is a great vacation spot, with good food and gorgeous women — but nobody seems to be working outside the tourist areas. The reason is
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The American Spectator : Crisis In Euroland The American Spectator Letter From Paris By Joseph A. Harriss on 1.4.11 The euro, that artificial Funny Money used by 331 million Europeans in17 nations — the 17th, Estonia, joined the euro just this week — was conceived in sin and born in corruption. The New Year brings
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UK Catholic School now 95% Muslim UK Catholic School now 95% Muslim cmr ^ | December 28, 2010 | PATRICK ARCHBOLD Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 4:22:12 PM by NYer Via Weasel Zippers we found this sad, but ultimately unsurprising story. (Daily Star) – A CATHOLIC school faces being taken over by a mosque
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The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com The Adam Smith Institute Blog Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens’ pension money to make up government budget shortfalls. Old women eat lunch in a retirement home in Budapest Dec. 13, 2010. Hungarian lawmakers rolled back a 1997 pension reform, allowing the government to effectively seize
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Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s rendezvous with monetary destiny Christopher Caldwell December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 It has been easy to snicker in recent weeks at the politicians who designed the euro, which appears on the verge of collapse after a decade as the common currency of a dozen countries in
