Last Monday, the Euro soared against the dollar after a near-trillion-dollar bailout of the currency that unites the European Union (EU) was announced. This Monday, it dropped to a four-year low. What are the lessons here, and ...Read more
Greece’s current fiscal and financial crisis easily reminds us that governments can get too big to succeed, but its more important lesson may lie elsewhere – so obvious that it’s sometimes hard to see. Greece should make us mindful of ...Read more
Americans’ top concerns these days are unemployment, deficits and debt. The rate of unemployment seems stuck at a level economically and ethically unacceptable, and efforts to bring it down appear ineffective and extremely expensive, especially in the context of runaway ...Read more
President Obama is expected to announce today a $3.8 trillion budget with a $1.2 trillion deficit for FY2011. Here’s the context within which he will reveal his plan. For decades now, the federal debt acquired through years and years of ...Read more
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