Writing about current events requires that the author be engaged in what is going on in the world in "real time." You have to live and breathe what is happening: you live the events daily. You live the actions of the Federal Reserve System and the European Central Bank. You live through the frustrations of the Federal Reserve System and the inability of the central bank to stimulate the economy back into a more rapid recovery. You live through the new programs the monetary authorities create, like a new round of Quantitative Easing, QE2, to support the smaller banks in the banking system...