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Save the Euro! The Risky Option that Could Work

Save the Euro! The Risky Option that Could Work

November 29, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Last week was miserable for those hoping the eurozone holds together and its 17 members remain part of the world’s first common-currency union. The bad news kept coming straight through Thanksgiving. But does it all add up to the collapse…

U.S.-China: Obama Foolishly Taunts the Dragon

U.S.-China: Obama Foolishly Taunts the Dragon

November 21, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The most striking outcome of President Obama’s busy crisscrossing of the Pacific last week is this: The U.S. is now going to station 2,500 Marines in Australia and develop (it hopes) a trade-enhancing organization called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP….

U.S. China Policy: A Snake with Three Heads

U.S. China Policy: A Snake with Three Heads

November 16, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

It’s dismaying to consider that the world’s largest economy may not know what it’s doing when faced with the planet’s No. 2 economy (and one of the fastest growing). But three of Washington’s most recent moves toward mainland China—the security…

Stealing America: China’s Busy Cyber-Spies

Stealing America: China’s Busy Cyber-Spies

November 7, 2011 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

Economic and industrial spying by China appears to be more pervasive and egregious than ever, costing America billions of dollars each year, according to a new report by a U.S. government agency. And the report raises an important question: If…

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