Thursday, June 23, 2011

Have the U.S. and E.U. Ever Been So Troubled?

Josef Joffe, New Republic
This is no time for gloating, neither for Americans nor for Europeans. For both sides are in deep economic trouble, only in different ways. The U.S. runs the worst deficit (as share of GDP) since World War II, and yet Keynesianism to the max won’t budge the unemployment rate—pace Professors Krugman and Stiglitz. What does fall is the dollar and the price of real estate, a double-whammy if ever there was one.The euro, meanwhile, may be rising, at least against the greenback, but the common currency, now ten years old, is about as stable as was Confederate script...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/06/23/have_the_us_and_eu_ever_been_so_troubled_258004.html

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