< New York Times - October 8, 1999
REBOUNDING SWEDEN DEFIES THE LAWS OF ECONOMIC GRAVITY By Edmund L. Andrews
STOCKHOLM -- At a time when world leaders are fascinated by the
United States' economic success and its credo of less government and
low taxes, Sweden seems to be defying gravity.
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I'm baffled, and I hope somebody can straighten me out.
I seem to remember just a couple of years ago much crowing in the NYT (and WSJ) that Welfare State Sweden (or Socialist Sweden) had seen the error of its ways, and was busy ending the cradle to grave welfare state. Back to capitalism, as I remember. It had to get real, there is no alternative, and so on.
Now the NY Times says Sweden never left the welfare state.
So what the hell was the story?
And doesn't the NYT think I will have some memory of their previous stories, however vague? Or, does it not worry what I think?
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