> Ad-hominems in an Economist article.

As expected - that source rarely publishes anything else. Here's another pearl [1], where they're rejoicing over the kettle's burned color.

In both cases The Economist is totally blind about the economic foundations of the problems and there's no hint of a solution.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580174 America has a whopping debt. But Europe has the whopping debt problem