Europe economy articles
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Americans should be more optimistic about our economy
Americans are down on the economy and believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Yet the metrics of economic health are good, and our friends and rivals in Europe and Asia face more troubling prospects.
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China's Economy in 3 Charts
The Chinese government's report for the first quarter of 2024 was a mixed bag of cause for optimism and systemic issues that continue to drag on economic growth.Newsweek charts based on the latest data from China's National Statistics Bureau illustrate three key bellwethers of the world's second-largest economy.GDPAccording to the new data, China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.3 percent year over year, slightly higher than Q4 2023 and beating many economists' expectations.Though...
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The state of open source in Europe
Open source is at a crossroads. For the past few years, venture capital has directly or indirectly paid for many of the contributors and much of the infrastructure it needed to keep going. That was until the past 24 months or so, when funding started to slow down, leading to less internal development or funding resources going toward open source. Companies suddenly had to justify themselves, have a real business model, cut costs, and fundamentally start to return something to investors. On the...