In its explosive expansion, the Atlantic Community is going to need the vertiginous sum of $1 trillion in new capital over the next ten years. The scarcity of capital is of course greatest in European nations, and the supply is of course greatest in the U.S. Thus, says the Atlantic Council of the United States, Europe is "the world's most promising growth market," and American technology is "the unquestioned key" to Europe's "strength, security and prosperity."
The council, a think group of prominent Atlantic-minded Americans, studied U.S. investment opportunities in Europe in a series of visits and conferences last year,...