This week's Outside the Box will be unusual. Rather than one essay, I give you a number of short ones, and links that are representative of the confusion that is Europe, along with a little history. As I noted this weekend, last week's Eurozone announcement was short of details, and very little...
A Definite Plan (Minus Those Sticky Details) Dear Mario When Leverage Is the Kind-of Answer Meanwhile Back in Portugal Let’s Just Change the Rules San Francisco, Kilkenny, Atlanta, DC … and the World Series Loss Where is the peace dividend that was supposed to come after the end of the Cold...
Do we need a law that makes it illegal to push a moose out of a moving aircraft? In baseball, what are the odds of a perfect game? How difficult will it be to solve the problems of the Eurozone? These and other issues are meditated upon by Grant Williams in his Things That Make You Go Hmmm… letter...
For today's special-edition OTB, let's turn our fiscal eye across the pond to all that's going haywire in Europe. But not the continent's banking crisis, per se. Today's piece takes a broad look at who's really running the show. I'll give you a hint: they've done it before...
Is It Time to Buy a House? Time to Get Outraged by the Banks We Need a Mulligan A Congressional Investigation Is Needed How We Get Out of This 20 Policies to Implement to Create Jobs Tuscany, Kiev, Geneva, and London This week we look at data from the Bank of International Settlements, by which (if someone...
This will be one of the more controversial Outside the Box posts in a great long time. Indeed, I debated with myself at some length. It will make some readers mad, but I decided it is more important to make most readers think. And, as it happens, there are parts of this week’s essay that I rather...
I am attending the Global Interdependence Center’s latest conference here in Philadelphia, writing you from the Admiral’s Club on my way to Boston. The chatter last night at dinner and between sessions was focused on the risks in Europe. I did an interview with Aaron Task on Yahoo’s...
The disconnect in Europe just gets worse and worse, as I sadly predicted at least a few years ago, and have made a big deal out of over the last year, with the very pointed note that a European banking crisis is the #1 monster in my worry closet. Today, within 15 minutes of each other, I ran across the...