Quit Screwing Around...

Germany's economic problems offer key signals about which nation owns the future. Hint: It's not them.

“You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.”

- Norm MacDonald

Good afternoon,

The Telegraph went on a tangent today about the state of the German Economy.

Of course, the author fell into the usual trap of pushing fear with reflections on “you know who.” In the fifth sentence, he mentioned hyperinflation and Hitler's rise.

It seems everyone’s an expert on 1930s monetary inflation and European fascism these days… but not enough of an expert on the true threat to the German economy in the 21st century.

It’s not fascism that is sinking Alemania.

It’s energy costs.

The author buried the lede. He writes after the first subhead:

The German economy, the richest in the EU, has been the envy of Europe for decades. Those days are over. The economy shrank for the second year in a row in 2024, inflation is at its highest for half a century and energy prices are high. German industry was cut off from cheap Russian gas after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Germa…