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What if Spain exits the euro? - elConfidencial.com

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Paul Krugman on Eurozone: "The Whole Thing Could Fall Apart in a Matter of Months"

Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Paul Krugman, Amy Goodman - May. 17 (Interview) - The European economic crisis is expected to top the agenda at the G8 meeting tomorrow at Camp David. In Greece, voters will soon head to the polls for another round of elections which will be viewed by many as a referendum on the Euro. Our guest today, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, warns the current bank run in Greece could spiral into the end of the Eurozone. "It is really quite shocking,” Krugman says. “I hate to sound apocalyptic.” Meanwhile, France's new finance minister has reiterated that the country's new socialist government will not ratify the European Union's fiscal pact calling for greater austerity. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Power and Money in America (Noam Chomsky)

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Informed Comment - By Noam Chomsky, posted by Juan - May. 09 (Opinion) - The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained [...]

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Austerity Is So Wrong!

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Paul Krugman - May. 06 (Opinion) - In a new book, End This Depression Now!, Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman says the current economic problems can be fixed both more easily and more quickly than anyone imagines. But politicians’ desire to slash spending is deeply destructive, and he details why austerity is so appealing even to Very Serious People—and why it’s such a bad idea.

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Punk Economics: Lesson 3

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

YouTube - By David McWilliams - Apr. 01 (Opinion) - Irish Economist David McWilliams discusses the dangers of playing games with liquidity, in Lesson 3.

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GOP Fiscal Proposals Are Sound 'If You Believe In Magic'

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Paul Krugman - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that’s what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama's deficits are leading us toward a "Greece-style collapse." So why is Mr. Romney offering a budget proposal that would lead to muc

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Mohamed A. El-Erian: Prepare for a Different Financial Landscape

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Mohamed A. El-Erian - Dec. 05 - With the European crisis continuing to dominate the news, many people now realize that today's global economy faces an unusually uncertain outlook.

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Calling Wall Street A ‘Gambling Casino,’ Democratic Rep. DeFazio Proposes Financial Transactions Tax

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - Echoing the demands of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) is proposing to tax the trading of stocks, bonds, and derivatives. DeFazio, along with his Senate co-sponsor Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), has proposed the tax several times in the past. But this time around, the idea is getting a boost of momentum [...]

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Home Decor Flash Sales Site HomeSav.com Raises $1.2 Million

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Robin Wauters - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - Luxury home decor flash sale site HomeSav.com this morning announced that it has raised $1.2 million in seed financing from multiple retail angel investors and entrepreneurs including the Koffler family and the Metrick family (founders and owners of Canada's largest high-end home furniture retailer). In addition, HomeSav.com says it has grown its membership by over 1,400 percent in the first year to over 100,000 registered users in the United States and Canada. Its members are said to place over 100 orders per day.

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Europe Is Warning Us

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Real Clear Politics - By Victor Davis Hanson - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - 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.

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‘Let’s talk about sex’—and what American teenagers don’t know about it [VIDEO]

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Apr. 09 - by Lisa Hymas. “Every day in America, 10,000 teenagers catch an STD, 2,400 young girls become pregnant, and 55 young people are infected with HIV.” Those sobering stats are from a documentary airing on TLC tonight, April 9, at 10 p.m. / 9 central. Let’s Talk About Sex is directed by James Houston, a fashion photographer who came to the U.S. from Australia and Europe and was aghast at our screwed-up sexual culture. Sex is everywhere, used to sell everything, but we don’t talk about it openly and honestly with our teenagers. “Young people in America don’t know the risks associated with sex, and because of that, American teen pregnancy and STD rates are among the highest in the industrialized world,” says Houston. Says one teenager in the film, “People are in denial—teachers, parents. They’re like, ‘No, no, teenagers aren’t having sex. They can’t, or the shouldn’t.’ But we do and we are.” I ...

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Palin Blames Obama For High Gas Prices

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Mar. 16 - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted President Obama in a Facebook post on Tuesday, accusing his administration of intentionally pushing energy policies designed to drive...

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Sarah Palin's Jewish Problem

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:45:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Jan. 14 - "...the Jewish people today are in slavery to many false gods in America.... My prayer is that American Jewish people become aware of the bondages to these gods and break free from them.. They must make Aliyah (return) to Israel before greater judgment o

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What Makes Somalis So Different?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Dec. 22 () - You’d expect their children would be — on the whole — relieved to live in a stable Western country where even the president is black. But the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis and other selected corners of the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills. A recent U.S. census study said Somali immigrants, statistically, were among the “youngest and poorest” newcomers to the U.S., with 82 percent of the community in Minneapolis living below the poverty line.

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Where is mathematics in Europe?

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

eurekalert.org - By Chloe Kembery - Dec. 02 (Opinion) - Europe needs an Institute of Industrial Mathematics to tighten the link between maths and industry as an enabler of innovation -- putting maths at the heart of Europe's innovation, according to the European Science Foundation, in a report launched today in Brussels at the "Maths and Industry" Conference.

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Does Europe Need to Be More American?

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Nov. 17 () - Europe, the cradle of the nation-state, wasn’t “founded” as a place for poor, tired and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. So might it take lessons from Uncle Sam on welcoming immigrants?

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Terrorism, Vigilance and the Limits of the War on Terror

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Stratfor - By George Friedman - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - The world is awash in intelligence about terrorism. Most of it is meaningless speculation, a conversation intercepted between two Arabs about how they’d love to blow up London Bridge. The problem, of course, is how to distinguish between idle chatter and actual attack planning. There is no science involved in this, but there are obvious guidelines. Are the people known to be associated with radical Islamists? Do they have the intent and capability to conduct such an attack? Were any specific details mentioned in the conversation that can be vetted? Is there other intelligence to support the plot discussed in the conversation?

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Priming a Broken Pump

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stan Sorscher - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - Their strategy is a winner in the long run, while ours is a long-run loser. They are playing by their rules; we are playing by our rules. Their rules beat our rules. In past recessions, we used the term "priming the pump" as shorthand for economic stimulus. Hand-pumps are no longer part of our daily experience, so the comparison is lost. It's just as well. The whole "pump-priming" metaphor is misguided. When you prime a pump, you assume that the pump works OK, and that the well has plenty of water. You just add a little water to the pump, and more water will come gushing out.

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The Dow vs. the economy

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Robert Reich's Blog - By Robert Reich - Sep. 03 (Opinion) - What passes for business reporting in the United States is too often a series of breathless reports about the stock market. When the Dow rises precipitously, as it did today (Wednesday), the business press predicts an end to the Great Recession. When the stock market plummets, as it did last week, the Great Recession is said to be worsening.

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Liberals Gone Wild

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 01 (Editorial) - “Liberal,” in Europe, means almost the reverse of what it means in North America. In Europe, it refers to laissez-faire economic policy. And because most large parties of the European left and right are committed to maintaining large, bureaucratic welfare states, liberal parties across the continent tend to be fairly small.

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Greatly Exaggerated: Rumors of the Euro’s ‘Collapse’

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Aug. 04 () - With the pan-European currency trading in the middle of its historical range, perhaps the doomsayers should reduce their caffeine intake a bit. It's true the euro may never see $1.50 again, now that European sovereign debt has been so fully exposed.

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Racist Latino Group Harasses Tea Party: “You’re Too White. Go Back to Europe.”

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Gateway Pundit - By Jim Hoft - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - A racist latino group harassed tea party patriots this week in Anaheim, California. The racists told the tea party patriots to– “Go back to Europe!” Don’t expect the state-run media to touch this story.

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Science and politics in the birthplace of the Enlightenment

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

minnpost.com - By Shawn Lawrence Otto - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - I have been posting from Italy all week, where I have been talking with leading European science journalists about science debates. Most of the world’s great challenges now revolve around science policy issues, yet we are paralyzed on many of them because of politics. Science debates bring policymakers together with science and the public, highlighting key issues and helping to break logjams. Today I am on a train from Venice via Milan to Turin, where I’ll catch a flight home. The way runs through the lush green Veneto plain, fed by the Po River. This area is full of historical significance, like the Rotunda that Jefferson copied for Montecello, or Verona of "Romeo and Juliet" fame. But I am stopping to see Padova, the oldest city in northern Italy and birthplace of the Enlightenment.

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Leonardo da Vinci, knowledge engineering, Debate 2.0 and summer on the Adriatic

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

minnpost.com - By Shawn Lawrence Otto - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - It Italy, when crowds get excited they sing in unison. I’m in Venice, the New Orleans of Europe, but here the flooding is planned. It’s night during the World Cup and several shops have turned televisions out to the squares, where folding chairs have been set up and local bars make rounds to the singing, cheering, klaxon-blasting soccer fans. I wander the streets, taking it in. It is hard to describe Venice’s special charm. The city and its surrounding islands are built on sandbars and pilings driven into the Adriatic, their scores of crisscrossing canals serviced by a crazy array of water taxis, gondolas and vaporetti — the public bus boats. Its car-less stone streets weave haphazardly around and through buildings that typically date back to the early 1000s, when Marco Polo returned to the city after 24 years of adventures in the Orient. They are filled with art, museums, fresh fish and vegetable markets, trattoria, ancient churches, and parties — soccer and otherwise.

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Bank Tax, We Hardly Knew Ye

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - Michael Scott Moore was a 2006-2007 Fulbright fellow for journalism in Germany, and his first novel, Too Much of Nothing, was published by Ca... Why euro-bashers could turn against the dollar, and how they might be stopped. How did such an

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