When I was a little kid I liked the picture puzzles that asked you to find all the mistakes—the dog with three ears, the plant growing upside-down, the mirror image that wasn’t a mirror image. Maybe that’s why I took a perverse pleasure in reading this thoroughly awful bit of “reporting” about Europe’s economic prospects . Of course, the problem in cases like this is never simply incompetence (although that has to be a factor), but also ideological zeal, which causes “serious” commentators to