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how many ways to tweak statistics did you count in the parts of the article I quoted?

I didn't count them, but the first one was the most glaring:

Over the past decade, European employment has grown by less than 10 per cent, while US employment has grown by 17 per cent

Oh, what were the respective population growths again?... The EU-15's was a bit above 3%, the US just below 13%,   so relative job creation was just: the EU's 6,5% vs. the US 3,7% (!), and I didn't took different job statistics into account!!!

To emphasize, Europe had more job creation than the USA over the last decade in relative terms.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Aug 12th, 2005 at 04:14:24 AM EST
Thanks for the numbers DoDo, i made the same point below without the detailed numbers. Working age population may have been slightly more than population growth in Europe, but that cannot change the point much.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Aug 12th, 2005 at 05:16:36 AM EST
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