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No Free Lunch? No Free Market?
Monopoly/Fun Guy versus Vendetta/Anonymous Guy — Separated at birth or just separate universes? Life isn’t fair, trade isn’t fair, justice isn’t fair and the market system certainly isn’t fair. That...
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History Keeps Repeating Itself In Europe
I always used to wonder how Europe — the mother of “Western” civilization — could watch itself helplessly descend into one 20th Century cataclysm after another without putting on the brakes (or at...
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REWIND: History Keeps Repeating Itself in Europe
I wrote this piece in November 2011. It is a dark, pessimistic look at how the European Union and the Euro Zone were both built on fatally flawed designs that allowed massive widespread abuse and lying...
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How To Figure Out A German Election (As If Anyone Could)
HAMBURG — You wouldn’t know it from the eerie quiet, but Germans are going to the polls in less than two weeks to elect a new national government. In the murky, diffuse fishbowl of German politics,...
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Who Earns More — A Canadian, An Italian, A Greek Or A Brit?
Listen up: I want all you quibblers, nitpickers and pedants to leave the room RIGHT NOW. Hop to it … You can stay, Woody — I said “pedants.” I’m sorry about that, but I’m going to be citing a few...
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No Free Lunch? No Free Market?
Monopoly/Fun Guy versus Vendetta/Anonymous Guy — Separated at birth or just separate universes? Life isn’t fair, trade isn’t fair, justice isn’t fair and the market system certainly isn’t fair. That...
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History Keeps Repeating Itself In Europe
I always used to wonder how Europe — the mother of “Western” civilization — could watch itself helplessly descend into one 20th Century cataclysm after another without putting on the brakes (or at...
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REWIND: History Keeps Repeating Itself in Europe
I wrote this piece in November 2011. It is a dark, pessimistic look at how the European Union and the Euro Zone were both built on fatally flawed designs that allowed massive widespread abuse and lying...
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How To Figure Out A German Election (As If Anyone Could)
HAMBURG — You wouldn’t know it from the eerie quiet, but Germans are going to the polls in less than two weeks to elect a new national government. In the murky, diffuse fishbowl of German politics,...
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Who Earns More — A Canadian, An Italian, A Greek Or A Brit?
Listen up: I want all you quibblers, nitpickers and pedants to leave the room RIGHT NOW. Hop to it … You can stay, Woody — I said “pedants.” I’m sorry about that, but I’m going to be citing a few...
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