FRANKFURT: Europe’s sclerotic growth and political dysfunction inspire frequent comparisons with Japan’s lost decade from the mid-1990s. It’s not there yet.
The region’s bout of misery this year – Germany’s industrial slump and the struggle to fix its banks, Italy’s inability to reform, the apparent defeat of central bankers seeking to wean the eurozone off stimulus – may seem to make perpetual malaise look inevitable.
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