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Netherlands

Video: Beach Creatures

This week’s New Yorker magazine features Ian Frazier on Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist who makes kinetic sculptures called Strandbeests that walk along the beach. In the video below, Frazier discusses the sculptures and how they fit into…

Why Iceland Voted “No”

The vote reflected widespread belief that government negotiators had not been vigorous in pleading Iceland’s legal case. The situation is reminiscent of World War I’s Inter-Ally war debt tangle. Lloyd George described the negotiations…

Insolvency Too

by Niels Jensen “There are those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.” -John Kenneth Galbraith On 1st January 2013, a new directive regulating insurance companies which conduct business within the EU will come…

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