What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Economic Problems in Europe
The episode explores whether Europe is truly falling behind economically, challenging the widely cited narrative of European decline relative to the U.S. Guest economist Dominik Leusder argues that much of the data underpinning this view—especially productivity comparisons—are flawed due
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