We know what the EU’s leaders want out of April’s meeting of the G-20 in London: lots of regulations to tie down Britain and the U.S. And we have a pretty good sense of what the outcome of the meeting will be: the Europeans will get what they want, and will throw a bone of a token approval of so-called fiscal stimulus to the U.S. But now we know what the Russians want. It almost makes the Europeans look modest. The Russians unveiled their proposals yesterday, after a meeting with …
Even more than rent-seeking and government expansion here at home, the greatest danger of a left-leaning Obama administration may be the danger of capitulation to a new world government. In the past, “One World Government” has been seen as a rallying cry of a fringe group, not something that many in the mainstream would either fear or desire. But, suddenly today it is on the lips of world leaders. The recent financial crisis is being blamed on a lack of world government. The Financial Times reports: Jacques Attali, an adviser …
