World Watch
Insight on what's happening beyond the United States.
- The Hayek Effect: The Political Consequences of Planned Austerity Lee Harris 05/17/2012
- Why the political revolt in Greece may not be a fluke, but a harbinger of more revolts to come.
- Europe’s Future on the Ballot Desmond Lachman 05/01/2012
- Depending on what happens this weekend, Europe should start bracing itself for a renewed intensification of its sovereign debt crisis.
- The Next and More Serious Phase of the European Crisis Desmond Lachman 04/23/2012
- Two upcoming political events could usher in a new, worse phase of the European debt crisis.
- The EU’s Emissions Trading System: Trouble in Paradise Thomas A. Hemphill 04/19/2012
- The bloom is fading from the rose.
- The First Carbon Trade War? Claude Barfield 04/18/2012
- Europe vs. the rest of the world.
- About Those Better Roads in China Ike Brannon and Matt Thoman 04/18/2012
- The president takes it as a given that Chinese infrastructure is better than America’s; the reality is otherwise.
- Searching for Gorbachev in Caracas Jay Hallen 04/05/2012
- The Bolivarian Revolution risks breaking to pieces. With each passing day, Caracas more closely resembles Moscow circa 1991.
- Europe’s Financial Maginot Line Desmond Lachman 04/03/2012
- Europe’s proposed financial firewall around Spain and Italy will likely prove as effective in protecting those countries from another market onslaught as was the Maginot Line in protecting France from Germany.
- Time for Greece to Leave the Euro Desmond Lachman 03/20/2012
- It is difficult to overstate how badly the Greeks were misled by the IMF and EU. Greece’s only path forward is to reintroduce its own currency.
- The Toxic Transition in Venezuela Roger Noriega 03/19/2012
- If a narco-state or violent crackdown emerges in Venezuela, the White House will no longer be able to avert its attention from the mess or to ‘lead from behind.’