Director | February 26, 2009
NWOU is keenly interested in the current struggle between economic nationalism and free-trade globalism in Europe. How national leaders align on this issue may mean the difference between national freedom and identity and European identity under EU tyranny.
Director | February 16, 2009
Bad news seems to get the biggest headlines. The center of the crisis appears to be in Eastern Europe at the moment. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has a scary article on the meltdown at the Telegraph.
Director | February 5, 2009
How are people responding to the global economic crash? Tom Engelhardt gathers local news reports on murders, suicides, and other extreme personal responses to financial reversal. Reuters reports on food scavengers in France. Bloomberg reports that the two global banks, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, will not be subject to salary and bonus regulations as […]
Director | January 24, 2009
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on Spain’s economic crisis at the Telegraph. It should be clear by now that the European Union is a “prison of nations” that prevents nations from setting their own trade policies, tax policies, and interest rates. When times turn tough, these countries do not have control over the full complement of economic […]
Director | December 28, 2008
NWOU is interested in the question of whether the global crash was planned or allowed to happen. Though we cannot answer this question definitively, we have come across a couple of messages that bear on the question.
Director | December 17, 2008
The Foreign Response As Secretary Paulson announced the TARP bailout plan, the world economy appeared to freeze. Construction projects around the world were cancelled, world shipping declined to record low levels, foreign banks announced losses, Iceland went into bankruptcy. All eyes turned to Communist China for demand stimulus to keep the game going, but China […]
