18. CNN, “Greek PM slams European Union amid crisis,” February 14, 2010; available online at http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-14/world/greece.eu.crisis_1_european-union-van-rompuy-greece?_s=PM:WORLD.
19. Ian Traynor and Katie Allen, “Austerity Europe: Who Faces the Cuts,”
20. Ibid.
21. Robert Samuelson, “The Welfare State’s Death Spiral,” syndicated column, May 10, 2010; available online at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/10/the_welfare_states_death_spiral_105503.html.
22. Remarks to the
23. Luke Harding, “Germany agonises over 30% childless women,”
24. Tristana Moore, “Baby Gap: Germany’s Birth Rate Hits Historic Low,”
25. Sacha Molitorisz, “Mama Mia: Won’t You Leave Home, Big Baby?”
26. Ibid.
27. Statistics Canada, “2006 Census,” September 12, 2007; links to purchase report available online at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/070912/dq070912a-eng.htm.
28. Rachel Donadio, “Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects,”
29. Carl Mortished, “What do cars and cows have in common? No, not horns,”
30. Ibid.
31. Theodore Dalrymple, “Know Thyself,”
32. “G20 summit: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel demand tough market regulations,”
33. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/61/42294015.xls.
34. Ibid.
35. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; facts available line at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/26/41920005.pdf.
36. Russell Shorto, “No Babies?”
37. Douglas A. McIntyre, “Memo To Congress: ‘Buy Land, They Ain’t Making Any More Of It,’”
38. International Monetary Fund, “World Economic Outlook,” (Chapter IV: Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: Why Reforms Pay Off) April 2003; available online at http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2003/01/pdf/chapter4.pdf.
39. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Economic Outlook No. 88 Annex Tables,” 2011; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/51/2483816.xls.
40. Abul Taher, “ ‘Soviet’ Britain Swells Amid the Recession,”