January 28, 2013 Why France Can’t Fight Years of shortchanging defense are showing up in its Africa campaign. The French armed forces field some of the world’s most sophisticated fighter jets, nuclear submarines, attack helicopters and armored vehicles. The country spent $52 billion last year on defense, which puts it in the world’s top […]
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WASHINGTON TIMES WILDERS: Resisting threat of fanatical Islam West must not surrender permanent liberty for temporary tolerance By Geert Wilders Friday, May 4, 2012 As I write these lines, there are police bodyguards at the door. No visitor can enter my office without passing through several security checks and metal detectors. I have been marked
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May 15, 2012, Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot. By BRET STEPHENS Readers presumably understand that Europe’s economic crisis is also the crisis of social democracy—of the idea that markets must be made to co-exist with high levels of taxation, regulation, unionization,
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Updated March 9, 2012, 7:17 p.m. ET Humans are born with the curiosity of scientists but switch to investment banking. By BRIAN BOLDUC New York By 2020, the word “computer” will have vanished from the English language, physicist Michio Kaku predicts. Every 18 months, computer power doubles, he notes, so in eight years, a microchip
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 A BNP Paribas executive makes his concerns known. By NICOLAS LECAUSSIN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: “Look at the French banks’ debt holdings versus those of U.S. banks,” he continues. “The total debt of the three big U.S. banks (Bank of America, JP Morgan and Citigroup) is $5.86 trillion, or 39% of GDP,
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The End of the New Deal Order It won’t win the future. Matthew Continetti September 5, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 47 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The modern welfare state was born. In our era, Keller writes, political debate isn’t over how to constrain government. It’s over how to use
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EUROPE NEWS AUGUST 24, 2011 As Sarkozy Seeks to Plug Holes in Budget, Heirs and CEOs Say in Open Letter That ‘We Feel We Must Contribute’ By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS Liliane Bettencourt, with her daughter Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers in Paris in 2007. PARIS—France’s richest woman, who recently ran into trouble for allegedly evading taxes, said Tuesday she
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Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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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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