> All the financial press I'm looking at says that the conflict between
> America and Europe is between New Economy (US and Britain) and Old
> (Germany).
There is an interesting theme in this week's Economist which bears heavily on the truth or otherwise of this. The Economist thinks Euroland is doing very nicely, what with all sorts of structural reforms of the blairite kuind now in progress.
Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList