In part one of our series on the lunacy of buying into real estate, we consider the interest rate argument. Home mortgage rates are not only at cyclical lows, but at all time lows. Some …

Adam Ferguson’s 1975 text of the social and moral collapse of Germany during the Weimar Republic is a must read for 2010. He details how Europe’s most austere and respected society disintegrated into belligerence, upheaval …