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In the UK, the country I’ve called home for the past few months, we’ve now officially entered an unexpected double-dip recession. Like Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron inherited a huge debt. However, the British pound is much...
The Great Recession officially ended in June of 2009, but the lethargic employment growth over the past two years contrasts sharply with the rapid employment growth that usually follows a recession. Most economists expected a quick return to...
Simmering With Greece “Pass this Bill,” urged President Barack Obama, warning that the alternative to his jobs plan was a crisis that would resemble Europe’s. In Sarah Palin’s letter to her Political Action Committee, she stressed the...
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (Photo by Vasilis Filis, Wikimedia Commons) For those of you just joining the ongoing Greek debt/Euro crisis currently unfolding, here’s the abridged version: For years, Greece employed excessive...
Yulia Tymoshenko (and her famed hair). Over the last few months you may have become weary of the cheap shots and the devious tactics that American politicians use to gain an advantage over the other party. But bad as they are, at least they...
Though these Syrians stomp in anger on the head of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father and former president, Syria remains deeply divided. It would seem that after months of peaceful protests followed by brute attacks on civilians by the Syrian...
Although many of these countries have since joined the EU, Turkey's progress remains at a standstill Over half a century ago, the issue of Turkey becoming a part of “Europe” first arose. I use quotation marks because the notion of Europe...
From an outsider’s point of view, the Swedes are an enigma. We label them as the peaceful, progressive folk who appear to merrily oblige the government’s exorbitant income tax (the highest rates remain just shy of 60%) and who offer one...
In the age of globalization, ideas, commerce, capital, and information can flow across national borders before you can say “damn, that was fast.” Why can’t people cross borders so easily? Here is how I see national borders: they are arbitrary...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Conservative challenger David Cameron each made their case Friday for a coalition with the party that finished third in Britain’s elections, hoping to secure the balance of power following an inconclusive...
