Nexit? Dutch parliament to debate whether to ditch the euro

Nexit? Dutch parliament to debate whether to ditch the euro

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2017 The rising tide of euroskepticism has crossed the North Sea and made it to the shores of the Netherlands. Following elections in March, the Dutch parliament will debate whether to end its relationship with the euro in what has been dubbed “Nexit”. The Party of Freedom, led by Geert […]

The coming train wreck

The coming train wreck

Sol W. Sanders   [See Archive] Resembling a huge 74-wheeler packed with unassembled goodies, the U.S. is stranded on the world economy grade-crossing with the Euro express gathering speed as it tears down the Trans-Atlantic financial tracks for a seemingly inevitable collision. A police report written by patronizing Harvard economists some time in the dim […]

Collapsing Europe is in crisis and the U.S. bailout option, for once, is not available

Collapsing Europe is in crisis and the U.S. bailout option, for once, is not available

Sol W. Sanders   [See Archive] Despite the fact that Europe is in the Northern Hemisphere, the downward swirl of the euro this month took a reverse direction and started going left — counterclockwise. Maybe it is the first part of the Mayan prediction that gravity will fail later this year and we will all […]

The Euro is dead, long live the euro!

The Euro is dead, long live the euro!

Sol W. Sanders In the spring of 1947, I was on deck as one of that dying breed of transatlantic liners was tugged into Le Havre. Despite decades of experience there was incredible confusion as French stevedores hassled over tying up ropes. A rail companion, a French Jewish refugee returning from American wartime refuge, declaimed, […]