Foreign Policy With Empty Pockets
The world financial crisis is going to have a major impact on the foreign policy of the incoming Democrat Administration — and not for the first time. Thirty years ago in a different but not...
View ArticleWhat Would Sir John Say?
As “annus horribilis” 2008 recedes into the background it might be timely to look back a few years and ask: Who really saw all of this coming? Was such an economic and financial disaster foreseeable?...
View ArticleThe True Origins of This Financial Crisis
Two narratives seem to be forming to describe the underlying causes of the financial crisis. One, as outlined in a New York Times front-page story on Sunday, December 21, is that President Bush...
View ArticleFinancial Affirmative Action Returns
We need more bureaucrats to strong-arm banks into doing the stupid things that got America and the rest of the world into this colossal financial mess in the first place, argues the Obama...
View ArticleBrazil Tutors the Big Dogs
There is a host of statistics that hail the amazing vitality of Brazil’s economy. Perhaps the most impressive, however, is the fact that Brazil has leaped over Canada as the number two in hemispheric...
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