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Bernie Sanders

leftcoastmountains

(2,968 posts) Sun Oct 25, 2015, 01:04 PM Oct 2015

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“Europe managed to make a much broader base of society wealthier. Was this easy? No, but it was the result of intentional policy decisions.”

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-europe-outperforming-the-united-states/

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Is Europe Outperforming the United States? (Original Post) leftcoastmountains Oct 2015 OP

The Europeans have been outperforming the US for a long time. Cleita Oct 2015 #1

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1. The Europeans have been outperforming the US for a long time.

Sun Oct 25, 2015, 02:56 PM

Oct 2015

Once they were able to pull themselves from the ashes of WWII, it's been full steam ahead for many of those nations.

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2. And now Europe is working overtime to undercut the US worker and the Chinese and Indian

Sun Oct 25, 2015, 05:42 PM

Oct 2015