The EU Just Slashed Growth And Inflation Forecasts For Europe's Lifeless Economies

The European Commission just released its forecasts for growth in Europe, one of its bi-annual outlooks. We knew it wasn't going to be pretty. Here's how bad it's gotten:  Inflation is set to be 0.5% this year, and 0.8% next year. Even in 2016, it'll only rise to 1.5%, still far from the ECB's 2% target Germany will grow by just 1.3% this year, and 1.1% in 2015 France will grow by 0.3% this year, barely out of recession at all, and 0.7% next year Overall growth for the eurozone expected to come...