A world led by a unified Europe would be a significantly better place than one mismanaged by a fragmented United States.
The Pandemic Reveals a Europe More United than the United States
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The Class Politics of Coronavirus Responses in the Americas
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Will the EU Survive the Coronavirus?
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Economic Crisis Shakes Old Paradigms
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Recovery Recedes, Convulsion Looms
The dominant mood in liberal economic circles as 2010 drew to a close, in contrast to the cautiously optimistic forecasts about a sustained recovery at the end of 2009, was gloom, if not doom. Fiscal hawks have gained the upper hand in the policy struggle in the United States and Europe, to the alarm of spending advocates like Nobel laureate Paul Krugman and Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf who see budgetary tightening as a surefire prescription for killing the hesitant recovery in the major economies.
Will China Save the World from Depression?
Will China be the "growth pole" that will snatch the world from the jaws of depression?