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  • Sweden: paradise or purgatory?

    06/06/2008 8:04:09 AM PDT · by george76 · 11 replies · 133+ views
    The Atlantic ^ | 05 Jun 2008 | megan mcardle
    I know, I should link more. I tend to forget that my readers don't know everything I know--that they haven't written a couple dozen stories about European disability and pension systems, growth rates, unemployment, immigration, and so forth... So sorry that I didn't provide links on my Sweden post about disability, unemployment, and so forth. I just sort of assumed that Sweden's amazing rates of disability, "true" unemployment rate that may top 20%, and so forth were common knowledge. They certainly aren't particularly controversial. But if there is anything less common than common sense, it's probably "common knowledge". Let me...