As we survey the bombed out rubble of the Greek economy this morning we should consider the major lesson of it to us all: We should never underestimate the ability of politicians to entirely screw up ...
When Harry Richter, age 8, was picking a second language to learn, he went for the obvious choice: ancient Greek. “It’s just the first thing that popped into my head,” says Harry, a second-grade ...
It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, this adage appears again about to be proved true by the way in which the United States Congress is dealing, or more ...
Aesop's Fables are some of the most famous ancient Greek tales with moral lessons in history, and many of the tales are used to guide children ...
As Athens burns after two years under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) – European Union (EU) adjustment program, one has to hope that Lisbon is paying attention to the Greek drama. Since, in order ...
With Greece now well on its way to exiting the euro, it is not too early to draw lessons for the International Monetary Fun (IMF) from its unfortunate Greek lending program. Since never before has the ...
In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober - a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy - argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that could be ...
Watching the periodic flare-ups of Greece’s ongoing debt crisis over the past five-plus years has been like watching a tragedy unfold in slow motion. 1) Government debt is a dangerous addiction and ...
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