Europe ‘faces political earthquakes’

Europe ‘faces political earthquakes’ BBC

Denmark Just Followed Switzerland And Slashed Interest Rates As Europe Stagnates Business Insider

Fully 46 percent of Polish home loans are denominated in Swiss francs. I am still waiting for figures for Bohemian lands ... classified as top secret.

The Great Leap Rightward Balkan Insight 

BAGGING THE CAT – KSENIA YUDAEVA, THE FIRST RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR TO BE SACKED IN SECRET John Helmer

More Young Adults Stay Put in Biggest Cities New York Times. Li: “Evidence of the hollowing out of the middle of the country in terms of brainpower.”

Stimulus and jobs, hard to have it both ways

Were poor people to blame for the housing crisis? TylerCowed

Michel Houellebecq is not a polemicist but a satirist. And his target is not Islam but spineless French intellectuals... Ouch

How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults Atlantic

Martin Luther King, Jr.: All Labor Has Dignity Truthout

…a public outcry has arisen over a town council plan to house refugees in a building that once served as a Nazi Command post at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Schwerte, a community of 50,000 south of Dortmund, has decided to move 21 refugees into the camp’s only remaining building on the outskirts of the town. The move comes, town officials say, because all the refugee housing in the town’s jurisdiction is already filled with 200 asylum seekers, and the town doesn’t have the money to purchase temporary structures. According to the town council’s spokeswoman, “The solution is a practical one.”