Portugal, May 2014

For Rita’s great pictures of Portugal, try this link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/notasia/sets/72157644783200495/   Lisbon is a smashingly beautiful city, situated on hills overlooking a bay that feeds out to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often compared to San Francisco because of all the hills and little funiculars will take you up many of the hills for 3.20 […]…

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Man Bites Dog: What the Europeans Can Teach Us

It’s pretty darn near universal Conventional Wisdom in the United States that the Europeans are finished in many ways: they don’t have fast economic growth, they have overly intrusive governments and they’re stuck in the past. Some of that may be true, and I’ve certainly been arguing for years that Japan and China are more […]…

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