Don't wake the MSM, but the dollar has gotten very strong over the past week.

The lazy French are going back to the 40 hour week. Of course the unions will strike and pose in the streets, but even the French can't put up with England having half their unemployment rate. Story is here. The 35 hour week was intended to increase employment, then the French cut back on Welfare, then they tried to exclude as many non-French products as they could. Nothing worked and unemployment stayed at 10%. Their real problem is a society that looks down on small business; their communist heritage encourages war against the bourgeoisie and contempt for middle class culture. What would work over there is National Socialism.

But, but Howard, isn't that Nazism? Yeah but they liked it when they had it before. No job? It's the Jews, shut up and dig them graves.