Friday, October 26, 2012

Cameron to Van Rompuy: No Negotiation on E.U. Budget

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Just days before the House of Commons debated whether Britain should secede from the E.U., Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, N...

Anti-Federalist Britain: South Carolina on Steroids

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If Douglas Carswell, a member of the House of Commons, had his way, Britain would secede from the E.U. before Prince Charles could say, “hi...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

The U.S. Sues Bank of America: A Spanking or Slap-on-the-Wrist?

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In late October 2012, federal prosecutors in New York formally accused Bank of America of “carrying out a scheme, started by its Countryw...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Political Risk in Systemic Risk: Finnish Pensions Err in Debt Crisis

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Finland became a state in the European Union in 1995 and adopted the euro at its birth in 1999. In terms of population, the state is betw...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Predicting Future Events in Political Risk Analysis: On the European Debt Crisis

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Political risk assessment is a nasty business in that the future has a stubborn habit of not wanting to be too predictable. Even though tom...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Euroskeptic Spoilers in the Council: Two-Tracks as a Solution

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During its meeting in October 2012, the European Council decided to move forward on the legal underpinnings of a banking supervisor at th...

Is the Commission Blackmailing Britain?

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In October 2012, the Daily Online reported, “Brussels officials are threatening to hit Britain with millions of pounds in fines in retal...
Friday, October 12, 2012

2012 Nobel Peace Prize Winner: The European Union

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In the modern world of organizations and the members who inhabit them, it perhaps makes sense that the Nobel peace prize would go to a gove...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

A "Bronx Upbringing" Out-of-State: Tolerance in a Federal Empire

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Typically, the American empire is assumed to refer to the hegemony of the U.S. in the world. “Imperialism,” in other words, is thought to ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Conflicts of Interest: Relying on a Wall Street Bank’s Safeguards

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In October 2012 the Wall Street Journal reported, “the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is examining how major investment banks and...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

A Separate “Eurozone” Budget: Two-Track Federalism

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A separate E.U. budget of €20 billion, 0.2 percent of the GDP in the “eurozone” of the E.U., was proposed in the midst of the debt crisis...

Homer on Heroic Leadership in Business

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Can a merchant be a hero?   A manager in the grips of the business-leadership fad, which began in the 1980s, might reply, “yes, of course....
Monday, October 1, 2012

Different Unemployment Rates in E.U. States: Stretching Federalism Too Far?

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For August 2012, the unemployment rate in the E.U. was 10.5 percent, which translates into 25 million Europeans without a job. In the U.S.,...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Poor States in the U.S. and E.U.: A Drawback of Federalism

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The state-debt crisis in the E.U. has had the unfortunate effect of exacerbating the prejudice in the northern states against the poorer so...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Report on the Future of Europe: Federalism and Democracy

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The report of the Future of Europe Group, released on 17 September 2012, warrants careful consideration by E.U. citizens and their state ...