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The United States of Europe and America: a latter day Jonathan Swift offers his modest proposal for easing transatlantic tensions.(Letter from Boston)

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From: European Business Forum
Date: 20020922
Author:Kurtzman, Joel

First allow me to apologise in advance to Jonathan Swift. Two hundred years ago, the creator of Gulliver's Travels proposed that the English eat the Irish as a remedy to the two islands' seemingly intractable assortment of woes. But time and the latest economic growth figures for the Celtic Tiger suggest that Swift may have got it all wrong and that the Irish should actually have eaten the English. All of which goes to show how important it is to get the metrics right.

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Using similar logic from my faraway vantage point in Boston. I would like to ...

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