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  TimesPeople recommended a blog post:

  Sep 13, 2011

  Will Culture Clash Splinter the European Union? - Room for Debate

  The euro was supposed to unify Europe. Is it only magnifying the north-south cultural differences instead?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

  It worked wonderfully.  The parents did not tell their children.

  My guess is they found it too embarrassing.  

  Western European Recovery after the Second World War should serve as a clean test of Keynesian economics.  The fact that the borrowing power was not local should make little difference.
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  Sep 13, 2011

  The Euro Widened the Culture Gap - Room for Debate

  What the sinking euro tells us about the divide between 'Club Med' and Protestant Northern Europe.

  • The Euro Widens the Culture Gap

    Josef Joffe, editor of Die Zeit  and the Abramowitz Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford U.
    

  "Culture doesn’t matter, Karl Marx orated; it is the “substructure,” the economy, that determines how society arranges its way of life. The tottering euro proves this great thinker wrong once more."

  Not that I can see.  The statement was one of the things Marx got right.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Humanitarian

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon#Cabinet_secretary

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon#The_Great_Depression
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  Sep 13, 2011

  Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on ‘Lost Decade’

  
  http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/the-slump-before-the-slump/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Humanitarian
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon#The_Mellon_plan
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon#The_Great_Depression
  This all reads with depressing familiarity.
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  Sep 13, 2011

  Europe's Cities: Where Would Hemingway Go in 2011? - Room for Debate

  In every era, one city is designated as a magnet of creativity and energy. Which city is the dynamic center in Europe now?

  It ought to be Philadelphia.

  Hemingway went in search of material.  He was at that time a working journalist.  

  He might very well be in Toronto with excelent broad band.

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