I see that Steve Rattner is using France as a cautionary tale: "If you want to live in France (economically), Elizabeth Warren should be your candidate." Just asking: would that be so terrible? 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/medicare-warren-plan.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/0...

France has plenty of problems — and the euro has turned into a terrible economic straitjacket. But France gets very bad press that isn& #39;t borne out by the facts. Did you know, for example, that prime-age adults are *more* likely to be employed there than here? 2/

Meanwhile, income growth for the bottom half of the population has been better there than here 3/

And thanks in part to universal health care, when it comes to life expectancy there& #39;s no comparison. (I liked the theory that it was all about red wine, but apparently researchers don& #39;t believe that anymore) 4/

France is no utopia. But the idea that it& #39;s some kind of hellhole is weirdly out of touch with reality. On the Rawls test — which society would you choose if you didn& #39;t know who you& #39;d be — France surely beats America 5/