O Frau Merkel, How Does Your Garden Grow?
A cheap euro, plus the "short work" plan, allowed the Germans to make lemonade from lemons. But tomorrow may be sour.
A Brief History of the Dollar
In living through the euro's teething troubles, it's worth remembering the adolescence of the American dollar.
Greatly Exaggerated: Rumors of the Euro’s ‘Collapse’
With the pan-European currency trading in the middle of its historical range, perhaps the doomsayers should reduce their caffeine intake a bit.
Germans and Inflation
History lessons address whether the European Central Bank should print more money to end the debt crisis.
How to Cap a Banker’s Bonus
Europe gets it just about right by not strictly capping pay but regulating how the payout wends its way to a banker's pocket.
Bank Tax, We Hardly Knew Ye
A Swedish idea that creates an insurance fund for preserving big banks — but not necessarily their bosses or shareholders — needs to return from the dead.
American Home-Schoolers Take on Geneva
Home-schoolers have it in for the U.N. Convention for the Rights of the Child, which only the United States and Somalia have not ratified.
Betting Against the Euro
Why euro-bashers could turn against the dollar, and how they might be stopped.
Sometimes a Cross Is Not a Cross
Crucifixes in Italian classrooms, like a cross in the Mojave Desert, attract legal trouble.