source: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/09/air-conditioning-one-of-the-most-important-economic-innovations/
Mario Draghi, the former Jerome Powell of the European Union, was tasked with writing a detailed report on the economic competitiveness (or lack thereof) in Europe.
His findings are striking.
Here are some facts and figures that stood out:
Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s househo...