OPINION APRIL 13, 2011 Athens Descends Into Anarchy The real Greek disease is contempt for the law, and the political failure to combat it. By TAKIS MICHAS Athens Greece’s public debt may reach 150% of GDP this year, an alarming possibility that has captivated outside observers. But in the final analysis, the major issue confronting […]
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APRIL 11, 2011 By allowing borrowers to write off the interest on their mortgages, the IRS is incentivizing homeowners to drag out their payments for years. There’s a better way. By ARKADI KUHLMANN If the financial crisis revealed anything about homeownership in this country, it’s that “ownership” is too often a misnomer. Since the crisis
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APRIL 11, 2011 As a candidate, I learned how much potential campaign contributors fear incumbent retribution. By JAMES L. HUFFMAN In the debates about campaign-finance regulation and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of last year, there seems to be widespread agreement on one thing: Public disclosure of political contributions is a good thing. That
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APRIL 9, 2011 Syria Kills at Least 20 Protesters By FARNAZ FASSIHI Syrian security forces fired on protesters as tens of thousands of people demonstrated in several cities Friday, killing at least 20 people, wounding hundreds and forcing medical personnel to turn mosques into emergency wards, witnesses said. Amateur video shows thousands of protesters in
APRIL 9, 2011 The contradictory faces of political Islam in post-Mubarak Egypt. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Cairo Two months after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians
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APRIL 9, 2011 Inflation Drives a Shift in Markets By TOM LAURICELLA And JUSTIN LAHART After being pushed and pulled this year by tumult in the Middle East and the quake in Japan, the world’s financial markets are increasingly being driven by economic fundamentals, including inflation and interest rates. The winners in the shift have
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APRIL 8, 2011 France Resurrects Border With Italy By STACY MEICHTRY VENTIMIGLIA, Italy—The migration wave unleashed by North African unrest has prompted France to resurrect its border with Italy—a barrier that was supposedly consigned to history’s dustbin with Europe’s unified economy. France is trying to stem a wave of North African migrants from entering through
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APRIL 7, 2011 Mobs murder more than 20 innocents in the name of God—and the commander of Afghan forces rebukes a publicity-hungry pastor in Florida. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It must have come as a disappointment to the mullahs of Mazar-e-Sharif—who sent the faithful out on Friday with instructions to avenge the recent insult to the
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APRIL 7, 2011 Up to 200 Refugees Missing in Cold Waters, 15 Found Dead; Europe Struggles With Influx From Turbulent North Africa By STACY MEICHTRY ROME—Italian authorities were losing hope of rescuing more than 200 migrants who remained lost at sea on Wednesday after a boat that had been ferrying them from Libya to Italy
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APRIL 5, 2011, 3:03 P.M. ET Fed Minutes Show Inflation Debate By JEFFREY SPARSHOTT And JEFF BATER Federal Reserve officials judged that the U.S. economy was gaining traction when they met three weeks ago, but highlighted the potential negative impact of rapidly rising commodity prices on inflation expectations, consumer spending and business investment. “A significant
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