Epstein Secrets

t, while the State Department doles out three billion dollars over five years in private security contracts to protect its gargantuan new embassy in Baghdad. We can't afford it, in this golden age of corporate profits when companies pay below zero in taxes while hauling in tax breaks from Congress worth

he Cyprus deal fatally undermined depositor confidence, thus making bank runs in other countries more likely. Certainly Cyprus and its paymasters in the European Central Bank have broken a taboo of the common European currency by imposing controls on the flow of capital into and out of the country, albeit "temporarily."

for Istanbul on April 13. At first, it seemed the same old dodge: weeks were wasted as the Iranians attempted to switch the site of the meeting to Baghdad. That effort met a brick wall; the U.N. coalition, often a spongy alliance, refused to countenance it, and the Iranians ... backed down. And then

t have to happen; the euro (or at least most of it) could still be saved. But this will require that European leaders, especially in Germany and at the European Central Bank, start acting very differently from the way they've acted these past few years. They need to stop moralizing and deal with reality; they need to s

gest problem in Kabul is traffic. Out in the provinces, even in Kandahar, you see traffic jams there. Kabul is a more liveable city by far than the Baghdad I left in 2009." And not only for Americans: Afghan school enrollment has EFTA00586785 15 risen from 1 million to 8 million — and from 0 to 2.5

Barack Obama. EFTA00586786 lo NYT An Impeccable Disaster Paul Krugman September 11, 2011 -- On Thursday Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank or E.C.B. — Europe's equivalent to Ben Bernanke — lost his sang-froid. In response to a question about whether the E.C.B. is becoming a "bad bank"