var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/07/new-economics-post-2/’,size:‘large’} I just published a new post on the Return of the Great Depression blog: “The EU’s Sovereign Debt Crisis.”
Entries Tagged as 'Europe'
New Economics Post
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Britain, Business, Economics, Europe, Finance, Politics
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Speak Hebrew, Not Yiddish
March 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Britain, Business, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/06/speak-hebrew-not-yiddish/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Whenever I hear American or European Jews speaking Ashkenazi Hebrew on the bus or in synagogue, I go nuts. And I shake my head at the growing popularity and revival of Yiddish among some Western Jews:
Although no one knows exactly how many Yiddish speakers there are […]
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New Economics Post
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Immigration, Law, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/04/new-economics-post/’,size:‘large’} I’ve published a new post at the Return of the Great Depression blog on how the growing economic crisis in the European Union may fracture the nascent sense of continental unity.
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New Economics Blog
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Israel, Personal, Politics, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/01/new-economics-blog/’,size:‘large’} I am now a co-blogger on European and Middle East economics at the website in support of “The Return of the Great Depression” by libertarian, Austrian-school economist and political pundit Vox Day (blog, column archive).
Of course, I have complete freedom to write what I want, so I encourage my […]
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Animal Rights Trump Human Rights
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Europe, Food, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/26/animal-rights-trump-human-rights/’,size:‘large’} I love my dog. I think farm animals should be treated humanely and not spend their lives in factory farms. Still a new Swiss animal rights law carries with it the specter of enforced Jainism.
Where does it end? Will government some day tell me I can’t eat meat or […]
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Redundant, Oppressed Men
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East
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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British documentary on the state of men and manliness in modern, Western society:
Men and masculinity are being marginalised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even considered dysfunctional. Men are being edged out of the family, the workplace and wider society as […]
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Stratfor’s Top Predictions for the “2010s”
February 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, China, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Russia
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/stratfors-top-predictions-for-the-next-decade-china-collapse-global-labor-shortages-new-american-dominance/’,size:‘large’} Sam’s always predicting gloom and doom for the US economy (often while mysteriously touting that of Israel). So, I thought I’d share STRATFOR’S TOP PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE: China Collapse, Global Labor Shortages, New American Dominance.
Indeed, the US does face some real issues (not actually mentioned by Business […]
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Advertising or Porn?
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Education, Europe, Journalism, Marketing, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/advertising-or-porn/’,size:‘large’} A new French advertisement aimed at stopping teenagers from smoking is drawing some controversial marketing buzz:
A new French antismoking advertisement aimed at the young that plays off a pornographic stereotype has gotten more attention than even its creators intended, and critics suggest that it offends common decency […]
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Globalization of Identity
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Britain, Culture, Economics, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Japan, Language, Law, Personal, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/globalized-identity/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — When I was a pre-teen and teenager, I took tennis lessons at Oak Hill Country Club (now closed) in Belleville, Illinois, and was later on my high school’s team for two years before my newfound passions for journalism and the Model U.N. took more of my time.
My favorite […]
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Divided Jerusalem
February 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Boston, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/22/divided-jerusalem/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — An city government official recently made an announcement that is realistically true in terms of Middle East peace:
Yakir Segev, who holds the East Jerusalem portfolio in the Jerusalem municipality, made an uncharacteristic remark on Friday, declaring that the Palestinian neighborhood east of the separation fence were “no […]
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Les Femmes : plus productives?
February 22nd, 2010 · 7 Comments · Business, Europe, Feminism
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/22/les-femmes-plus-productives/’,size:‘large’} Il paraît, selon Bonne Nouvelle ! (un blog de LeMonde.fr), que les grands sociétés du bourse français fleurissent quand ils ont plus de managers féminins.
This one’s for you, Sam: The top 40 companies on the French stock market grew 23.54 percent when they had more than 35 percent female […]
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En Allemagne, un futur indépendant
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, Environment, Europe, Global Warming
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/17/en-allemagne-un-futur-independant/’,size:‘large’} En Allemagne, l’avenir des bourgs: énergétiquement indépendant.
Pendant que tout le monde attende action des gouvernements nationaux, les allemands ont pris les affaires en main.
The Death of Food
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Europe, Food, Global Warming, Globalization, The Boston Globe
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/08/the-death-of-food/’,size:‘large’} French traditional cheeses dying out? Say it ain’t so!
Still another victim of globalization.
Don’t get me wrong: globalization has its perks, and I’m not going to be rioting at G8 or WTO conferences anytime in the foreseeable future, but Big Government, Big Ag, and supermarkets are killing small farms and diversity […]
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Book Review: 1948 — The First Arab-Israeli War
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Book Reviews, Books, Britain, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Egypt, Europe, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/book-review-1948-the-first-arab-israeli-war/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — Benny Morris, a professor of history in the Middle-East Studies Department at Ben-Gurion University, is something of an enigma. Himself born in Israel in 1948, the year of the re-founding of the country and the resulting war with neighboring Arab states, Morris is the leading figure in […]
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Thought of the Day
January 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Europe, Immigration, Law, Personal, Politics, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/10/thought-of-the-day/’,size:‘large’} Imagine that you lived in the ancient Roman Empire twenty years before it collapsed, and you knew that it was coming. You predicted barbarian invasions, anarchy across the continent, and ensuing violence for the foreseeable future.
Sometimes that’s how I feel when I think about the United States and Europe.
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