Outside the Beltway

So, what’s next?

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Expect plenty of GOP infighting if President Obama is re-elected next November.

“The debt crisis is burrowing ever deeper, like a worm, and is now reaching Germany.”

Italy’s new government is comprised exclusively of un-elected experts.

Last night, most of the leading Republican candidates for President acted as if Europe was on another planet.

The Greek referendum could be a disaster for the global economy. And might be the right thing to do.

European leaders continue to kick the can down the road on a crisis that could bring down the global economy.

It’s time to start being concerned about Europe.

In an interview, President Obama says that Americans are worse off than they were four years ago.

A mustachioed German has once again sent the world into panic. This time, it involves euros not tanks.

The 30-year bond has actually gained more than a point in early trading after the S&P downgrade!

Lost in the hubbub of S&P downgrading the US bond rating is news that the Italian government has the ratings agencies under criminal investigation.

Upon further review, S&P’s downgrade of the United States bond rating . . . still makes no sense.

He doesn’t do a very good job.

To save the world economy and themselves Germany and China must change course.

What we don’t know might hurt us.

Despite what appear to be the fond hope of European central bankers that it will just all go away, something needs to be done. But what?

Have credit cards and ATMs eliminated the value of large currency zones?

Tonight’s topics: Escalation on the Korean peninsula, the continued woes of the eurozone, and goodness knows what else.

Responding the near-collapse of the Greek economy, forestalled only by a massive bailout from their brethren, the EU’s finance ministers agreed this morning to submit the outlines of their budget plans for approval by the European Commission.

A combination of news and some lunchtime satire.

What do the critics mean when they say that the United States should be more like Germany?

My latest for The National Interest, arguing that the talk of crisis in Europe is overblown, is up. Naturally, they’ve titled it “Crisis in the EU.”