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Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing (archive.is)

submitted 2 years ago by emerty to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Riktastic@laguna.chat 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What a journalistical mistake, you can't directly compare a group of countries with a single country. In this case fallen behind means in money. Which is quite a bad assumption.

[–] emerty 2 points 2 years ago

More like a political mistake to have joined up monetary policy and no fiscal policy