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 …

The world economies sputtered forward through most of 2009 despite warnings of a total economic paralysis. Those who invested long in equities and commodities and short the US dollar were handsomely rewarded. But 2009 will …