becoming europe

January 15, 2013

Samuel Gregg: Americans’ ‘Absurd Expectations’ and the Economic Crisis

Samuel Gregg, Acton’s Director of Research and author of the book “Becoming Europe“, says one of America’s real debt dangers is our increasing sense of entitlement from the government. In today’s Investor’s Business Daily editorial, Gregg states our “insatiable appetites” are getting us into the very deep economic trouble that no one, least of all politicians, seems to want to face: …Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker famously lamented in 2007: “We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.” Continue Reading...

January 11, 2013

Audio: More ‘Becoming Europe’ interviews with Samuel Gregg; Washington book event

Samuel Gregg on Money Radio 1510, Scottsdale, Ariz.: [audio:http://bonhoeffer.acton.org/acton_media/mp3/2013/2013-01-11_Gregg.mp3] Samuel Gregg on the Janet Mefferd Show:: [audio:http://bonhoeffer.acton.org/acton_media/mp3/2013/2013-01-10_Gregg.mp3] Gregg’s new book Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future is now available. Continue Reading...

January 09, 2013

New E-Zone Unemployment Rates Should Raise American Alarm

Record unemployment rates in Europe have been published and they should alarm Americans. Why? Because we are headed in the same direction. Nile Gardiner, of The Telegraph, is quite sure of this: The United States isn’t just gliding towards a continental European-style future of vast welfare systems, economic decline, and massive debts – it is accelerating towards it at full speed. Continue Reading...

December 30, 2012

Samuel Gregg: United States succumbing to ‘Eurosclerosis?’

In the New York Post, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg looks at “the spread throughout America of economic expectations and arrangements directly at odds with our republic’s founding” and asks what the slow walk to “Europeanization” means for the long term. Continue Reading...

November 12, 2012

Samuel Gregg: Are We All Europeans Now?

Writing on The Corner over at National Review Online, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg points to the election and, refreshingly, tells us that, “I’m not one of those who, in recent days, have seemed inclined to indulge their inner curmudgeon, apparently convinced that it’s more or less game-over for America and we’re doomed to Euro-serfdom.” Continue Reading...

March 02, 2012

Samuel Gregg: The American Left’s European Nightmare

On The American Spectator, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg observes that, “as evidence for the European social model’s severe dysfunctionality continues to mount before our eyes, the American left is acutely aware how much it discredits its decades-old effort to take America down the same economic path.” Continue Reading...

June 08, 2011

Samuel Gregg: Truth, Lies, and Euros

It is very easy to forget what is happening in other parts of the world especially when we are in the midst of our own financial crisis in the United States. Continue Reading...

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