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Europe simply printed more money than the US. Same for everyone else.

I find that hard to believe. Do you have a reference?

My understanding that the US stimulus was generally unparalleled

You're right, US has printed much more money. The EU is catching up though.

In 2021, EU total amount of quantitative easing was 2.947 trillion euro's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank#Low_infl...

That's just for 2021 though.

I think 2020 was even more

The cumulative numbers as of right now:

I'd say the eurozone is winning in what matters:

3 trillion euros / ≈14.5 trillion euro gdp of the eurozone ≈ 20.6% of gdp

4.5 trillion USD / ≈23 trillion US gdp ≈ 19.5% of gdp