Saturday reading
In case you’re looking for something to do since Auburn’s football game against Arkansas isn’t on TV this afternoon, I thought I’d provide you with some links to reading related to my column from this weekend.
You can read “How we became the United States of France,“ the Time magazine article I referenced, here.
The big meeting of the world’s finance chiefs this weekend is covered here and here.
This article delineates the global coordination of the efforts to deal with the worldwide financial meltdown.
The Scotsman had this story entitled, “New World Order: Global co-operation, nationalisation and state intervention—all in one day.“
Our own Washington Post asked, “The end of American capitalism?“
Almost lost in all this drama is another $25 billion giveaway from Uncle Sam, this time to American automakers. President Bush finalized the deal on Tuesday.
Quite a week in America, once the greatest capitalist country in the world.
