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April 29, 2012

Europe Cools American Sentiment

Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard

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The eurozone's bailed out periphery countries can't persuade their saviors of the validity of the first rule of holes - when in one, stop digging. So although austerity is driving deficits up rather than down, shrinking economies (at an annual rate of 5 percent in Greece), and boosting unemployment (half of Spain’s young workers are jobless), Germany insists that everyone dig faster.

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