A weekly column written by Duncan Weldon and produced by the Clark Center for Global Markets. Each week, Weldon explores timely topics of macroeconomic importance.
Between Hand Wringing and Smugness
There are two veins that tend to run through the tone of European economic commentary when the continent’s residents – or at least those in Western half – compare themselves to the United States. Broadly put these can be classified as either hand-wringing pessimism or rather smug complacency. The pessimistic case is based on the […]