The Dirty Old Man and the IMF

Tuesday - May 17, 2011 at 1:56 am

by Patrick J. Buchanan Saturday was a bad day for the New World Order. New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, a Grand Master of the Universe and the Socialist Party's hope to defeat President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012. Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he is known, was hauled Continue reading...

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The End of La Dolce Vita

Friday - May 7, 2010 at 12:33 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Are Europe and America headed to where Athens is today? To answer the question, consider what brought Greece to where she is -- running a deficit of 14 percent of gross domestic product with a debt approaching 100 percent, with Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Great Britain not that far behind. Continue reading...

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Obama’s Problems — and Ours

Sunday - February 28, 2010 at 11:37 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan We inherited the worst situation since the Great Depression. That is the reflexive response of President Obama to the troubles from which he has been unable to extract his country. Even before the inauguration, he says, there were projections of a $1.2 trillion deficit for 2009. That deficit is not my deficit. Continue reading...

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Bretton Woods II — No Way

Friday - November 14, 2008 at 12:35 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "Laissez-faire is finished, the all-powerful market that is always right, that's finished," said Nicholas Sarkozy, speaking ex cathedra, last month. As a result, said the diminutive French president, it is "necessary to rebuild the entire global financial and monetary system from the bottom up, the way it was done at Bretton Woods after World War II." Sarky's Continue reading...

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