I realized I had taken Cosmo’s medication this morning. Once it wore off, I learned that Cosmo is 80% healed and should be all better in time for the cross-country trip I will be taking him on in August to go to my wedding in Washington State. Suggestions on where I should take him are welcome. 2. Now that I’ve kicked the doggie pain-killer habit, I would like to announce that the Goldberg File has a sponsor! As close readers of this column know, I am a fan of the brown liquors. Well, now one of the finest in the world has decided to go slumming by sponsoring this page. Glenlivet, teardrops of the Gods, nectar of the Earth, serum for what ails you, is now my official sponsor. Cosmo finally respects me. You cannot imagine my relief when I heard they were going to sponsor this column, because I actually like Glenlivet. And while I am certainly for sale, I didn’t need to be in this case (and speaking of cases, hint, hint, Mr,black vans. Ad Rep). So, drop your kids off at the grandparents, get a cab, and go drink responsibly like it’s 1999! We’ve always suspected that alcohol makes you cool, smart, and popular, but with Glenlivet it’s actually true! Bathe with it. Impress your future father-in-law — not just by drinking it, but by using it to light your Laramie cigarettes. 3. Before you leap to the conclusion that today’s column is too self-indulgent, I would just like to point out to you that the cover story of the latest issue of Rosie is about her “ordeal” with a staph infection. Just be glad I don’t have my own magazine. “In This Issue Of Jonah: ‘I ate something I found in my couch and now I don’t feel good.’” 4. I’d also like you to know that British law-enforcement folks don’t have enough to do. 5. And, finally, if you want an actual “serious” column, check out my syndicated column.[标签:标题]
There is an elephant in the living room of the U.S.-European Union talks going on this week. And that elephant,vans sk8, which no one seems to want to talk about, is the continued world economic slowdown. It’s all very interesting for the Europeans to attack George Bush on SDI and Kyoto and his opinions on capital punishment and his literary-linguistic prowess, or lack thereof. But I have to believe that ordinary main-street European citizens are much more interested in whether they will have a job at the end of this year. Advertisement I keep scanning headlines to find references to the global economic slump, but it’s not an item on the official U.S.-EU agenda. Bush Defends Kyoto Treaty Decision. Bush Says Russia is Not the Enemy. Protesters Converge on Swedish City. Bush Encounters Bad Shadow on Tour. Yada yada. Still no reference to the decline of economic growth among the former Western allies. That’s why stock markets are falling. They are sending a vote of no confidence on future economic-growth prospects for the Big Three areas of Japan, U.S.A,vans shoes., and the Euro Union countries. In the run-up to the U.S.-EU meetings, and during the meetings themselves, English, French, German, and U.S. markets have all dropped four to five percent. And as for the Euro countries themselves, they are all down 15 percent or so year to date, much worse than the U.S. equity marts. Traditional economic-growth-stimulating measures, such as sound currencies, tax cuts, deregulation, and trade liberalization, are nowhere being discussed in these meetings. Actually, the biggest economic headline coming out of Europe is the EU anti-trust protectionist rejection of the big GE-Honeywell deal. Not even Jack Welch, America’s leading businessman, could talk sense into the Euro regulators. And then, of course, there’s the near-defunct Euro currency, which I call the Euro peso. Pesos, you may remember, never float. They sink. That’s what the Euro has done. Eighteen months ago it was first offered at $1.18 and today it is 85 cents. Was there any discussion of currency coordination and stability between the dollar and the euro at these meetings? Nope. But world currency instability is the handmaiden of global economic slumps Related articles:

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