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Re: The Anglo Disease has not made it to Bloomberg (none / 0)

Jobs created over the past ten years in the UK: 2.5M
Jobs created over the past 10 years in France: 2.5M (almost all of them under Jospin)

So. there haven't been many jobs created in France in the last 6 years, then?

And what does a French baker have to do with the Anglo disease? If at least this Rousseau guy were a Banker...

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 20th, 2008 at 05:30:20 PM EST
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Re: The Anglo Disease has not made it to Bloomberg (none / 0)

Also, the market for bakeries is pretty much saturated in France. I can walk to three different ones less than 100 meters from my front door...

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sun Jan 20th, 2008 at 08:30:36 PM EST
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Re: The Anglo Disease has not made it to Bloomberg (none / 1)

what does a French baker have to do with the Anglo disease?

Luxury food provider in a financial services boom town - which unsurprisingly drains workers from a neighbouring region to which it is connected by high-speed rail.

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 01:36:23 AM EST
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