There is an amusing perversion of the expression “it is always darkest just before the dawn” – sometimes attributed to Mao Tse-tung – which goes something like this: “No it isn’t. In fact, it is always darkest just before it is completely black.”
You cannot help but think of this cheery warning when listening to the eternal, almost Panglossian, optimism of eurozone policymakers.
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