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Weidmann: Continental drift? Transatlantic economic relations in turbulent times
Richard Haass, Steven Sokol, John Lipsky, Ladies and gentlemen, If our meeting had taken place 200 million years ago, my journey to New York would have been rather short. At that time, all of the land masses on Earth were joined together in the super-continent of Pangaea, including North America and Europe. And New York City, the spot where we are meeting today, would have been at the very heart of our common continent. Tectonic plate shifts caused Pangaea to break apart and created the world as we now know it. Since then, North America and Europe have been separated by the Atlantic Ocean. Indeed, our continents keep ... (full story)