Part I    Ramona and I arrived in Portugal the day after Great Britain voted to leave the EU. While we can’t know the economic implications of Brexit, this rejection of Brussels surely demonstrates dissatisfaction with bureaucratic impositions on daily life.  Especially during peaceful times, people resent command-and-control government.    Generally, most people try to […]

Ramona and I are traveling through Portugal observing the culture and economy of Lisbon and Porto.  We are in route to give lectures at the University of Aix en Provence in France arriving in Lisbon the day after the Brexit vote to leave the EU.  People here were far more interested in the European soccer games.  I […]