Archives: April 2012

Daddy’s Home

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Daddy has been traveling a lot lately — Silicon Valley, Berlin for the Institute for New Economic Thinking conference, Istanbul, Doha, Dubai, New York — and now back to D.C.

The Meaning of Omar Suleiman

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photo credit: Reuters Egypt’s Presidential Election Commission has deemed ten candidates unqualified for the upcoming election battle to succeed the toppled Hosni Mubarak.  They include the surprise candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood, Khairat al-Shater; the more radical Islamist Hazem Salah Abu Ismail; and Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s long time spymaster.

Soros: If Germany Persists, Europe is Over

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George Soros has gone to Berlin to tell the Germans that their policies are leading to the disintegration of not just the Euro, but Europe itself. Yesterday in a panel on the “Future of Europe” at a conference organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Soros said: The Euro has really broken down.