Pining for a new Europe superpower should at least wait for the current one to die, shouldn't it?
We're not dead yet, as that article starts:
In a report to clients, analysts at Goldman Sachs argue that the United States still has the world's strongest economy -- and will for years. There is a growing "awareness of the key economic, institutional, human capital and geopolitical advantages the U.S. enjoys over other economies," contend Goldman's analysts.
The writer citing this report says we shouldn't rejoice too much since the Western world is teetering even if you can't say America is uniquely stumbling.
So mind you, our relative dominance requires other sources of potential power to screw the pooch even more than we do. But that is happening. And we have sources of power that cushion policy idiocy.