Europe Dancing Around The Fire Of Hell
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 4th, 2012 11:08 pm by HL
Europe Dancing Around The Fire Of Hell
Byron Wien, Blackstone
When the New Democracy party in Greece defeated the anti-bailout Syriza, I was anxious to learn what The Smartest Man in Europe thought of it all. The next day I flew across the Atlantic to meet him and we had a long discussion about the world financial outlook. Many of you remember The Smartest Man from earlier essays; I have been writing about him annually for more than a decade. He has been a friend for thirty years, and during that period he has shown an almost uncanny ability to see major events affecting the financial markets before other…
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A Tax is a Tax is a Tax
Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard
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The Downside of Liberty
Kurt Anderson, New York Times
THIS spring I was on a panel at the Woodstock Writers Festival. An audience member asked a question: Why had the revolution dreamed up in the late 1960s mostly been won on the social and cultural fronts "” women's rights, gay rights, black president, ecology, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll "” but lost in the economic realm, with old-school free-market ideas gaining traction all the time? For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial pageeditor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT.There was a long pause. People shrugged and…
