Wednesday, September 29, 2010

European confidence on the rise

-- European confidence in the economic outlook unexpectedly improved this month as executives and consumers weathered tougher government budget cuts by countries struggling to convince investors that they won’t need external aid.
An index of executive and consumer sentiment in the 16 euro nations rose to 103.2, the highest since January 2008, from a revised 102.3 in August, the European Commission in Brussels said in an e-mailed statement today. --
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Comment: The real world of economics is quite different from what Bernanke's and Krugman's textbooks say.

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