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Proust I – VII: The Difficulty of Coming to Terms with a Brutal Childhood Trauma

The unearthing of crucial, yet stacked away memories in the human mind is the focal point of Marcel Proust’s literary effort. He is
achieving this objective by encouraging himself and us not to just cowardly fall for manifest, water-prove, positivist evidence but to adopt a speculative, circumstantial evidence based approach as well Continue reading

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Marcel Proust: How not to despair given the many rivers to cross on this ancient battlefield?

Marcel Proust: What it means to grow up in post-Gallia Belgica, post-Gallia Celtica and post-Germania Inferior Continue reading

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Will Germany keep its cool in the Public Relation Battle with Greece?

It is entirely possible that Germany will eventually lose the level-headed poise which it manages to maintain up until now in the diplomatic standoff with Greece over that country’s wartime reparation demands . Continue reading

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It can

It is true that Mr. Hollande’s leadership is wanting. But you have to give him credit for being less socialist now than when he came to office. Continue reading

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This is outrageous!

It is completely mistaken to use the Cyprus savings account tax as a blueprint for future bank rescues. All this happens because the European Union erroneously subscribes to the common wisdom that it was wrong to let Lehman Bros go bust and that every bank should instead be rescued in order to avoid a systemic risk for the entire financial system.
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Bad Boy Germany, yet again!

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Does Latvia

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We cannot return to the innocent Citro

The argument that Southern European countries need to exit the EURO in order to regain the capacity to devaluate their currency if economic reality dictates so is flawed. After all, it is really hard to imagine that people anywhere could go back to the old Citro Continue reading

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The EURO rescue effort and the Italian election result

We were expecting that sooner or later something would come up that would challenge the solidity of the Euro rescue effort. We didn Continue reading

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Just another form of Protectionism

Britain’s separatism in Europe is mistaken because our world has become so interconnected that it doesn Continue reading

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