Happenstance has brought me today to a house on the Austria-Germany border, just south of Salzburg. That puts me about 3 miles from the German town of Berchtesgaden, on the German side of the border. Adolf Hitler’s home, the Berghof, […]
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The Not-So-New Europe
A dozen years ago, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appalled the Western European public by telling a Dutch journalist, “You’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s old Europe. If you look at the […]
Top 16 Books on Wall Street’s Spring Break Reading List
Here are the top sixteen books on Wall Street’s spring break reading list by Kristen Scholer of The Wall Street Journal. Dave Lutz, Head of ETF trading and strategy at JonesTrading, surveyed 800 portfolio managers, traders and analysts about what […]
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George Friedman: Flashpoints – Authors at Google
A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe, this provocative work examines ‘flashpoints’—unique geopolitical hotspots where tensions have erupted throughout […]
Europe And The Greek Drama: The Preface from Flashpoints
Europe And The Greek Drama: The Preface from Flashpoints by John Mauldin, Mauldin Economics All eyes are focused on Europe this week as another Greek drama plays itself out. I have to admit that in my student days I was […]