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Protecting Its Revenue for You
The ongoing attempt of Ken Allison to set up a Euro-style recycling center in Haywood County had another turn. Allison at first was going to build at a discount. Eight…
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currency of most countries in the European Union
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Historian Johnson puts today’s dangers in context
Historian Paul Johnson asks Forbes readers to consider whether the world today is more dangerous than it has been in living memory. The biggest danger, theoretically, would be a full-scale…
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Sowell asks whether a Cyprus-style bank seizure could happen here
Thomas Sowell‘s latest column asks whether Americans could be threatened with the same fate as the people of Cyprus, where the government decided to raid people’s bank accounts to help…
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Historian Ferguson ponders Europe’s flirtation with fascism
No historian from Europe can afford to take the topic of fascism too lightly. Harvard’s Niall Ferguson understands that, but he offers an interesting perspective in Newsweek about the Continent’s…
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No Pension Bailout!
View in your browser. A Travesty to Federalism and Loss for North Carolina Unfunded pensions for state employees have reached such a magnitude — $2.5 trillion nationally — that a…
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Borders contemplates capitalism’s small victories
The latest installment of Max Borders‘ Ideas Matter update includes his musings about small triumphs attributable to capitalism. It’s not just iPads and The Avengers that give us reasons to…
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Steyn sums up the European economic crisis
Mark Steyn‘s latest “Happy Warrior” column in National Review puts the current European economic crisis in historical perspective. The European Union is, philosophically, a 1970s solution to a 1940s problem.…
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One Euro who gets it
As many Europeans clamor for new government stimulus programs to boost their flagging economies, Jens Weidmann, the head of Germany’s Bundesbank, takes a different approach. The latest Bloomberg Businessweek profiles…
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Lowry explores the changing relationship between Europe and China
Don’t know the history of European domination of China? National Review editor Rich Lowry does, and he contrasts it with the current state of affairs between a rising power and…
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Banktown is Doomed
First up, the AP documenting that BAC and other banks are utterly dependent on robo-signed docs to generate any kind of new lending activity. It is to Mecklenburg County’s eternal…
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The Population Fizzle
Started poking around the new Census numbers more. Not good. In sum, the assumptions our entitlement engines made are all out of whack. A 2010 population of 308m. is just…
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To VAT or Not To VAT
Dear Maximum Leader Hood here commits counter-revolutionary thinking which fails to adhere to the dialectic of the struggle. On the topic of the big Bowles-Simpson Commission on fiscal reforms there…