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2023-08-29 Europe

Germany is losing it's MOJO. Finding it again won't be easy

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-29 06:35|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 And then, cheap russian gas stopped.

Posted by Grom the Kindly 2023-08-29 06:52|| 2023-08-29 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 It started sometime after they absorb East Germany.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-08-29 07:16|| 2023-08-29 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 The German way...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-29 07:55|| 2023-08-29 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe accepting millions of third worlders and deciding that they're all now germans was perhaps dubious logic.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-29 08:54|| 2023-08-29 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Germany has been going downhill for a while, especially with its demographics. It is running out of workers and has too many old pensioners. Now on top of that globalization and the previous customers, especially China, are in the same boat and not buying anymore.

The Ukraine war with the loss of cheap Russian gas just put the roller skates on it and gave it a good push towards the cliff.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-08-29 10:23|| 2023-08-29 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 In general, a higher population results in a higher GDP, but absorbing an endless cadre of unassimilated poor folks that have no skills is not a rational plan to achieve those desired results. It’s an especially bad plan if the new folks don’t plan to work. That plan seems to have been implemented in most Western countries.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-29 11:24|| 2023-08-29 11:24|| Front Page Top

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