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The European Commission (EC) released a report today saying that last quarter's economic contraction will extend into the first two quarters of 2012, sending the euro zone group of economies into a recession. Today's report from the European Commission forecast that euro zone economies will shrink...

Within the last few months, from an economic standpoint, it seems that a "two-speed" world is emerging. On the one hand, there are the euro zone countries, where financial turmoil threatens to trigger a recession and put the future of the eurozone at risk. On the other hand, there are developing...

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski made an unusual appeal to Germany in a desperate attempt to get Germany to do more to save the eurozone from collapse. The Polish foreign minister said that a eurozone collapse was the biggest threat to the security and prosperity of Poland and that...

With the uncertain fate of the Eurozone in the news recently, I thought it would be interesting to discuss some interesting parallels between Europe and the United States of America. Where the thought of a "United States of Europe" may continue to sound like a fantasy, I think it is interesting...