A poll taken for the Financial Times in seven countries shows the French to be the gloomiest about their future, despite a milder economic downturn, while Americans, whose recession has been deeper, are relatively optimistic. “Britain, meanwhile, emerged in the poll as the second gloomiest country of those surveyed, after France“, the FT says. The poll asked people about their attitudes towards living standards in the past decade and the coming one.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 29 December 2009.
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