Franz Ferdinand and Sophie von Chotkovato While Greece continues to not meet the deadlines for cutting its budget deficit, Germany has come up with a plan to hold talks with private creditors to extend the maturity of its bonds —… Continue Reading →

Petra, where Lawrence of Arabia roamed Protests widen in Syria. Revolutions come home to roost in a country that was created in the chaos after World War I, a war whose revolutionary atmosphere is still alive and well in the… Continue Reading →

Thursday Germany agreed not to raise interest rates at the June meeting of the European Central Bank. On Friday Germany attended the meeting in Luxembourg of top finance officials in the EU to discuss loan programs for the “pigs”, especially… Continue Reading →

Germans want to increase interest rates above 1.25% in June the next time the European Central Bank meets, but some concede that they must take into consideration the needs of the “pigs” like Ireland, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. They must… Continue Reading →

In the ashes of World War I and World War II(the last combat veteran of WWI, Claude Stanley Choules, died today in Austrailia at 110), Europe decided to model itself after the victorious United States of America. Each country would… Continue Reading →

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy Seals, the latest event in the War Against Terror, the British are broadening their dragnet to round up terrorists. It’s a move reminiscent of the early days of… Continue Reading →

Jens Weidmann, Bundesbank PresidentPrice stability has been Germany’s new religion since the Second World War. It is the policy that made possible its miraculous economic recovery from the fire bombings and the invasion by Allied troops, most ominously by Russia…. Continue Reading →

Suddenly the Navy Seals burst through the two security gates and the twelve-foot fences. They open fire at 1:10AM local time on a compound 8 times larger than any other house in the neighborhood in the town of Abbottabad forty… Continue Reading →

The London mob has always been feared by monarchs and Prime Ministers alike, nowhere more so than the 1930’s and then again during the Royal Wedding ceremony this past Friday. In the 1930’s Prime Minister Baldwin and Prime Minister Neville… Continue Reading →

The Wall Street Journal extols the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William as being steeped in tradition and fairy-tale-like in its Saturday, April 30 article, “The Traditions Behind Crown, Carriages, And An Historic Abbey”, but on Friday I saw… Continue Reading →