Europe's Capitalism Curtain
By Steven Pearlstein
Friday, July 23, 2004; Page E01
WROCLAW, Poland
A curtain has descended across Europe. On one side are hope, optimism,
freedom and prospects for a better life. On the other side, fear, pessimism,
suffocating government regulations and a sense that the best times are in the
past.
This is not the same "iron curtain" famously described by Winston Churchill
at the outset of the struggle against communism. But it is a psyc...