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  • Germany is just hit by a combination of different factors. Some are bad luck, some are bad politics, but none of them are incredibly dangerous. The gas crisis is solved and gas prices are already at a fairly normal level again, so consumers will get more money from lower energy prices. Currently German has a lot of strikes. Obviously that slows down the economy right now, but higher pay means workers spend more money, which increases consumption, which is currently slowing down the German economy. Global manufacturing is down due to lower demand. This hits Germany badly, due to not only having a large manufacturing sector(manufacturing as a share of GDP is nearly twice as high for Germany then France for example), but also due to Germany being a large manufacturer of factory grade machines. Obviously manufacturing companies invest less, with low demand, so the sector is hit especially hard. A domestic bad policy is the debt brake, which leads to the German government investing too little in Germany.

    However the German labor market is strong with low unemployment. Germany can easily borrow a lot of money, if it chooses too and the current “crisis” is about a tenth of the decline Germany had in the great recession of 2009. So chances are this is going to sort itself out and to a large part already has done so. It most certainly is not going to hurt other EU countries especially hard.


  • There have not been any official Leopard1 deliveries for months now. We know for a fact, that there are a large number of Ukrainians officially being trained in Germany on them for what looks to be way too long and we also now that there are significantly more actually fully repaired and refurbished Leopard1s in Germany factories. There was no official delivery of Leopard1 for over four months now.

    Chances are that the list is incomplete. It is meant to show a lot of weapons are being send to Ukraine and is a good tool to miss lead Russia.













  • Das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft ist ein Think Tank der deutschen Industrie. Also natürlich wollen die eine wachsende Wirtschaft mit mehr Reichtum für die Reichen.

    Ansonsten muss man einfach sagen, dass die deutsche Bevölkerung ohne Zuwanderung um 300.000 Menschen pro Jahr schrumpfen würde. Das liegt einfach da dran das es weniger Geburten als Kinder gibt. Wenn man sich das global anschaut ist es so, dass mittlerweile bei allen Kontinenten bis auf Afrika weniger als 2,1 Kinder pro Frau geboren werden, was bedeutet das langfrisitig die Bevölkerung schrumpft. Ironischerweise passiert das wenn man einen gewissen Grad der Industrialisierung erreicht hat. Momentan sieht es so aus als ob viele Länder um 2050 herum anfangen zu schrumpfen. In vielen Regionen ist das schon der Fall. China, Italien, Japan, Thailand, Bulgarien, Rumänien und viele andere Länder schrumpfen schon heute.

    Soll heißen Überbevölkerung ist kein Problem, sondern halbwegs rational mit den Resourcen umzugehen die wir haben. Dazu haben wir die nötigen Technologien und Deutschland hat wirklich viel gute sinnvolle Infrastrukutur in der Richtung.