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Poster Children for European Profligacy Who Owns Whom? The Lessons Greece Can Teach Us about Europe – Madame Frexit? In Defense of Alexander Hamilton New York, Denver, Maine, and Boston “If this were a marriage, the lawyers would be circling.” The Economist, My Big Fat Greek Divorce...
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An Unexpected Decade Spending Money You Don’t Have on Promises You Can’t Keep Hello, Illinois, Anyone Home? How Many Trillions Did He Say? Why Illinois Is the Next Greece New York, Maine, and Boston When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say live and let live…...
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Collateral damage. Unintended consequences. Friendly fire. Certainly no one intended to have a global banking meltdown when they let Lehman Bros. go under. Now we’re watching another Greek drama that could have significant unintended consequences – far beyond anything the market has priced...
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Greece Must Stay in the Euro Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds Contagion, Thy Name Was Greece Prisoner of the Bureaucracy Toronto, New York, Washington DC, Las Vegas, and Argentina I wrote some time ago that Greece had a choice between Disaster A: staying in the euro; and Disaster B: leaving the euro. I...
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Unsustainability and Transition One Bubble to Rule Them All The Year of the Windshield Godzilla Redux: Disaster A or Disaster B France Is the New Greece US: The Crisis Games Entitlement Unsustainability London, Athens, Geneva, Toronto, and New York “There are decades when nothing happens and there...
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The Next Bubble A Hollow Powerhouse? We’ve Seen This (Manufacturing) Movie Before A Manufacturing Renaissance Bismarck, Scandinavia, Greece, Geneva, and Writing Schedule For the last year, as I travel around, it seems a main topic of conversation is “Where will my kids find jobs?” It...
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In This Issue. * Manufacturing slides * Annual home prices finally rise * Greece on the front page again * Tides turn this morning And, Now, Today's Pfennig For Your Thoughts! Same old story. Good day.and welcome to another wonderful Wednesday. Chris and I were joking back and forth yesterday morning...
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In today's Outside the Box, the ever-philosophical Grant Williams introduces us to the ancient and profound art and science of alchemy – "the original 12-step program," as he calls it, the avid pursuit of übernerds from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton to (believe it or not...
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After I sent out this week's OTB on Germany, I remembered this very intriguingly titled piece by my friend George Friedman, founder of a geopolitical analysis company called Stratfor. The piece was written a few days ago, but when it comes to someone as ahead of the pack as George, who managed to...
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