Well someone has to lead the way, but it’s kind of surprising that the British might be the ones. The Times has a story that puts the likely loss of government jobs in the hundreds of thousands as a result of new austerity measures. Detailed research by The Sunday Times shows that at least 300,000 […]

There seems to be a broad theme about that the real villain in the European debt crisis is Germany. Steven Pearlstein has an article in the Washington Post advancing this thesis. Here is Pearlstein’s take on the matter: What Germans won’t accept is that they wouldn’t have been able to sell all those beautifully designed […]