Der Spiegel: Larry Summers is President Obama’s ‘Cheney’
This from Der Spiegel, the arrogant news magazine of the left-leaning German elite, in anticipation of Chancellor Merkel’s visit to the White House, “Chancellor Merkel Visits the Debt President“:...
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Germany’s New Governing Coalition Preserves Nuclear Power
From Reuters, “Germany gets mandate to extend nuclear life cycles“: FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s majority for a new center-right government means she can rewrite a national...
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Following the Elections, Nuclear Power Stays Potent in Germany
From Der Spiegel, “Merkel’s New Coalition Agrees to Extend Nuclear Reactor Lifetimes,” reporting on the results of negotiations between the two new coalition partners to head the federal German...
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An Austerity Budget? Maybe the Germans are on to Something
From the left-liberal Der Spiegel, ”German Austerity Program Offers Chance for New Beginning“: As Chancellor Angela Merkel’s embattled government gets ready to thrash out an austerity program to rein...
View ArticleGermany’s Austerity Budget
An example to be studied by the Bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform? From Der Spiegel, “German Government Agrees on Historic Austerity Program“: The German government put...
View ArticleCircumnetting Energy Policy and the Lack Thereof
We catch up on energy news that may have slipped through the tines of the barbecue fork over the last days of summer, at least as Washington, D.C., understands the season. Jobs …. Just thought we...
View ArticleIn Germany, Campaigning on Manufacturing, Competitiveness
In reading governors’ State of the State addresses this month, we’ve been struck by how few specific references to “manufacturing” and “industry” there have been. In U.S. House elections last fall,...
View ArticlePower Politics: German Nuclear Shutdown Stresses Grid, Economy
Germany’s anti-nuclear movement has always been one of the strongest in the world, and the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan has provided more political energy behind the “Nein, danke” crowd....
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Japan’s Disasters Shake German Politics
The anti-nuclear-energy Greens get their first state governor by dint of a second-place finish in Sunday’s elections in Baden-Württemberg, widely perceived as rebuke to the federal CDU-FDP alliance led...
View ArticleEnergy Security, Energy Reality in America, Germany
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke spoke in Milwaukee today with WisBusiness.com filing a report: MILWAUKEE — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke told a Milwaukee audience the United States — and...
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