By Jeffrey Kuhner America’s economy is in free-fall. Growth is anemic. The stock market is collapsing. Real unemployment — combining the high jobless rate with rampant underemployment — is higher than 16 percent. Manufacturing is dead. Deficits, debt and government spending are at record levels. Our credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. […]
The Arab freedom wave has now hit the shores of Europe and in the most unlikely of places: the Balkans. Croatia, an Adriatic nation that straddles the civilizational fault line between Central Europe and the Balkans, has been seething with public unrest and protests. For weeks, thousands of demonstrators have been assembling almost daily in […]
