Wirtschaftsdisaster

• • A misguided social policy Germany was struck by a virtually unparalleled mass exodus of capital and talent out of the labor intensive domestic sectors

  • This explains the high German capital and manufacturing export surpluses.

  • Instead of putting the machines produced in Germany to work in Germany, they were exported, creating work abroad

  • Germans save like others, but invest less than any other OECD country

  • It is no small wonder that during the period from 1995 to 2009, Germany will come in at the bottom of the list in economic growth.

  • While the 15 western EU nations will have grown on average by 27.1% over the period, Germany will have managed a mere 14.3%, surpassing only anemic Italy, which comes in last with 11.9%

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• • No other major European economy is suffering as much from the shockwaves of the U.S. financial crisis as Germany

  • Germany’s economy will probably shrink by more than 6% in 2009

  • So why is Germany so much worse off than most of its European Union peers?

  • Germany systematically obliterated its labor-intensive domestic sectors with its policy of reducing income disparities across skill categories

  • By offering low-skilled workers welfare and unemployment benefits that often exceeded the wages they could earn in the private sector, policy makers condemned them to chronic unemployment

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Wirtschaftsdisaster

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"Fólk heldur oft að kreppan mikla 1930 hafi komið vegna hruns á hlutabréfamörkuðum. En svo er ekki. Þetta var bara venjuleg kreppa sem kom þarna. En svo fór risastór banki í Mið-Evrópu á hausinn og sá atburður kom af stað kreppunni miklu."

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