Lisbon
Things are terrible here, as unemployment soars past 13 percent. Things
are even worse in Greece, Ireland, and arguably in Spain, and Europe as a
whole appears to be sliding back into recession.
Why has Europe become the sick man of the world economy? Everyone knows
the answer. Unfortunately, most of what people know isn’t true — and
false stories about European woes are warping our economic discourse.
Read an opinion piece about Europe — or, all too often, a supposedly
factual news report — and you’ll probably encounter one of two stories,
which I think of as the Republican narrative and the German narrative.
Neither story fits the facts.
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