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As many of you have noticed, the last couple of days have seen some slow blogging.  This is partly because the term paper grading season is upon us and I have been spending my spare time blighting the hopes and lives of America’s most promising youth.But also I’m preparing for a two-week trip to Israel.  […]

The latest sickening bout of stock market turbulence underlines the point I made on this blog last December; the next stage of the global economic crisis is centered in Greece.That’s an unpleasant reality for our European friends who have spent much of the last decade chattering about American decline and the coming crisis of the […]