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America on Welfare By  Doug Bandow   Living the good life on welfare. Even the Europeans recognize that they pay a high price for cre...

Southern Europe's Shadow Economies by Christopher Sultan Much has been said about the relative disparity of wealth between Germ...

Sluggish growth shows Big Government still holding back economy By Rory Meakin Five years on from the start of the recession, with ...

It's getting closer By Wolf Richter    The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, with a population of just over half a million, smaller eve...

How America's biggest banks took part in a bid-rigging conspiracy by   MATT TAIBBI Someday, it will go down in history as the fir...

Crisis vs Opportunity By Annika Breidthardt German companies are setting their sights on southern Europe as fears of a  euro zone   ...

First, shut down the empire and let Muslim rulers deal with Muslim radicals By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN I do not know the method of dra...

The world is what it has always been, a wicked place   by Theodore Dalrymple When I was young banks were as solid as a rock and tho...

The monetary and economic policy of the last 3 years has helped the wealthiest and penalized everyone else by  George Washington   Y...

A political/financial system that is incapable of meaningful reform Despite the many differences between China and the U.S., their b...

This message has many intended audiences By Vladimir Socor Russian President Vladimir Putin and Gazprom are announcing colossal plan...

This is corruption at the molecular level of the economy The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the yea...

The parameters in which we allow ourselves to think about vital issues shrink remorselessly By mark steyn O ne of the most ingenious a...

Banks Battling to Survive By  Pater Tenebrarum Yesterday we had the opportunity to attend a presentation by the treasurer of a Eur...

Rights go wrong when there are no wrongs that rights can right by Jon Holbrook Fifty years ago this August, Martin Luther King led the...

Britain’s bureaucratically endorsed culture of entitlement and dependency by David Clements   Public services in the UK cannot be sus...