We were sipping our coffee yesterday morning and reading the Wall Street  Journal (after getting the Hotline out the door), and this headline caught our eye:

That headline suggests Europe is on the rebound. But the unexpected “pickup in growth” was from a microscopic 0.2% to a tiny 0.4%.  Amazingly, for the past three years since Covid ended Europe’s annual growth rate has been BELOW an anemic 1.5%.

The fledgling U.S. economy looks like a Mario Andretti race car compared to that performance.

The left wants America to emulate European welfare-state socialism. We can’t figure out why.