EU officials look with envy on the unified U.S. system. But it doesn’t work the way they imagine it does.

Joseph C. Sternberg
Editorial-page editor, Europe, The Wall Street Journal
Joseph C. Sternberg is editorial-page editor and Political Economics columnist for the Journal's European edition. He joined the Journal in 2006 as an editorial writer in Hong Kong, where he also edited the Business Asia column.
Articles
The only thing worse than how we’d pay for pandemic relief is what will happen when, inevitably, we don’t.
The city isn’t the economic asset it once was, but its autonomy showed China could keep its word.
The devaluation of moral currency has reached the hyperinflation stage. No one can buy social peace.
EU leaders admire the Founder’s ideas about fiscal policy but have no grasp of their purpose.
How much devastation is self-inflicted, not caused directly by the virus? Voters are right to wonder.
We’ve seen these scare tactics before, in both the campaigns against Brexit and against Trump.
They originally wanted herd immunity, realizing lockdowns would incur the disasters we’re seeing.
Economists have claimed the right to address many issues outside their discipline’s orbit. This book reminds us how inappropriate that is.
Progressives world-wide disdain workers and deride Sweden’s moderate liberals for resisting a lockdown.
Appeals to science are inevitably rationalizations for decisions that are fundamentally political.
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