Let the good times roll

[BeBMan]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,479149,00.html

(looong)

Some quotes:

Experts in the government and academia are astonished over the strength of Germany's economic recovery. Unemployment is declining more rapidly and the government coffers are filling more quickly than during any other economic recovery in postwar German history.

In their spring report, released last Thursday, Germany's five leading economic research institutes predicted that this year will bring 450,000 new jobs. Each day, 1,200 people find new jobs. And the German job machine is expected to continue running at similarly high levels in 2008.

German growth is now approaching the level of economic growth in the United States. The US economy has experienced between three and 4 percent annual growth in recent years, but coupled with strong population growth; whereas population growth in Germany has stagnated. When the two countries are compared using the more meaningful statistic of per capita growth, Germany and the United States are growing at about the same rate.

Ecthy, SirRalph et al. - we're all getting ****ing rich, no?

[VetLegion]

4% is very good for an ancient economy like the German. I hope it continues and isn't just some seasonal thingie.

[VetLegion]

BTW. does this mean that East Germans finally got off their butts and went to work? Echty?

[battosai]

Yeah, we are having a pretty good Spargel season.

[Saras]

Germany was having trouble, what a sad sad story

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

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I'm buying oven futures.

[BeBMan]