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2024-09-29 -Short Attention Span Theater-
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Judgement Day - Physics will be the undoing of the European Union, and soon.
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[Doomberg] "We should never forget that competitive sustainability has always been at the heart of our social market economy." — Ursula von der Leyen
As far as word salads are concerned, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is a culinary savant. The skill required to effortlessly blend oxymoronic phrases like "competitive sustainability" and "social market economy" in a manner that sounds like they should mean something is considerable. Yet von der Leyen pulls off such linguistic leaps into nothingness with admirable regularity. We all have to be good at something.
One thing the European Union (EU) has not been good at since the turn of the century is generating meaningful economic growth, especially in comparison to the US and China. Saddled with worsening demographics, multiple layers of intrusive government, and a bungled energy policy, the EU’s economic malaise has reached a crisis point. In a particularly pointed article published in The Wall Street Journal in July of 2023, "Europeans are Becoming Poorer," the raw numbers were laid bare: 
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