From the FT: The European Economic Outlook
Source: http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/10/from_the_ft_the.htmlPosted on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | In Economics
Contributed by: Menzie Chinn (http://www.econbrowser.com) -
From Europe’s Stormy Outlook:
Stormy conditions prevail across Europe’s economies, blackening the outlook after the arrival of a full-blown banking sector crisis this month sent confidence plummeting and threatened widespread-economic damage.
Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, warned late on Sunday on French television of a “strong slowdown”.
The recent turmoil has hardened expectations that 2009 will see little, if any, growth across much of the Continent.
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Figure from Europe’s Stormy Outlook.
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