Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell on July 12, 2010
By Daniel J. Mitchell
I like poking fun at French politicians for being hopeless statists, and I always assumed that French voters shared their collectivist sympathies. But according to new polling data reported by the Financial Times, there may be a Tea Party revolt brewing in France. Among major European nations, the French are most in favor of smaller government. [...]
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Tags: big government, debt, Deficits, europe, france, Government and Politics, government spending, International Economics and Development, polling data, public opinion | 
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Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell on July 1, 2010
By Daniel J. Mitchell
Many people assume that Europe is the land of high-tax welfare states and America is an outpost of laissez-faire capitalism. We should be so lucky. The burden of government in America is still lower than it is in the average European nation, but the United States is a lot closer to France than it is to [...]
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Tags: big government, corporate income tax, europe, european commission, Government and Politics, International Economics and Development, tax competition, tax harmonization | No Comments »
Posted by Justin Logan on June 25, 2010
By Justin Logan
Josef Joffe famously referred to the U.S. presence in Western Europe as “Europe’s pacifier.” The idea was that you stick the American pacifier in there and the *cough* recurring problem emanating from Europe goes away.
After the Cold War ended, and the official reason for the NATO alliance blew away as if in the wind, we [...]
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Tags: Christopher Layne, defense spending, europe, Foreign Policy and National Security, John Mearsheimer, Josef Joffe, Mancur Olson | No Comments »
Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell on June 25, 2010
By Daniel J. Mitchell
Barack Obama and Angela Merkel are the two main characters in what is being portrayed as a fight between American “stimulus” and European “austerity” at the G-20 summit meeting in Canada. My immediate instinct is to cheer for the Europeans. After all, “austerity” presumably means cutting back on wasteful government spending. Obama’s definition of “stimulus,” by [...]
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Tags: big government, Cameron, debt, Deficits, Euro, europe, Government and Politics, government spending, Health, Welfare & Entitlements, International Economics and Development, Merkel, obama, taxation, welfare state | No Comments »
Posted by Alan Reynolds on May 18, 2010
By Alan Reynolds
What does the Greco-Euro currency/debt crisis mean for the U.S. economy?
Nearly everyone except the uniquely wise economist John Cochrane assumes very bad “contagion” effects –on U.S. banks, exports and particularly U.S. manufacturing.
This echoes identical anxieties while the world went through a far more dramatic Asian currency crisis after July 1997, and a Russian debt crisis [...]
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Tags: Energy and Environment, europe, exports, Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy, foreign currency, Foreign Policy and National Security, growth, International Economics and Development, john cochrane, manufacturing sector, recession, Texas | No Comments »
Posted by Alan Reynolds on May 18, 2010
By Alan Reynolds
What does the Greco-Euro currency/debt crisis mean for the U.S. economy?
Nearly everyone except the uniquely wise economist John Cochrane assumes very bad “contagion” effects –on U.S. banks, exports and particularly U.S. manufacturing.
This echoes identical anxieties while the world went through a far more dramatic Asian currency crisis after July 1997, and a Russian debt crisis [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: Energy and Environment, europe, exports, Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy, foreign currency, Foreign Policy and National Security, growth, International Economics and Development, john cochrane, manufacturing sector, recession, Texas | No Comments »
