Posted on 02/25/2018 10:08:20 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Germany's statistics office has said the German state last year logged the highest annual surplus since the country reunited in 1990. The result came on the back of record-low unemployment and low interest rates.
The German government, the country's 16 states and its communities posted a budget surplus of 36.6 billion ($44.9 billion) in 2017, the National Statistics Office (Destatis) reported Friday, slightly revising an earlier estimate of 38.4 billion.
The figure marked the fourth annual surplus in a row in Europe's powerhouse, which no longer has any difficulty sticking to the European budget deficit rules as laid down in the Maastricht Treaty, and which stipulate that governments' fresh borrowing must not exceed 3 percent of gross domestic product.
The positive result last year was again made possible by full order books and record high employment as well as by the European Central Bank's ultra-loose monetary policy and its low-interest policy in particular.
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Fat chance of a trade war as German economy relies on exports
German threats sound eerily sad like the Soviet Union economic threats minus the nukes
They certainly wish Hitler was back or to use Climate Change or islamic mass migration rhetoric as weapons on the US now
Germany heavily depends on England and the US for its exports, so their antiBrexit threats are empty bull sht.This thread is about a record German budget surplus. For you to turn that into crap about Brexit, that you can't even give a single example for, shows that you are nothing but a cheap hater.
They certainly wish Hitler was back or to use Climate Change or islamic mass migration rhetoric as weapons on the US nowOh. I see. You are very much insane.
Hitler was for the islamization of Germany as a weapon to thrust into others, not content with Catholics. Merkel is echoing under PC terms the same thing about the need of muslims for German strength.
If I were a hater, I would be happy like you ignoring and abetting the transformation of Germany into an islamic state for the megalomaniacal designs of spoiled dictators
You are an obvious hater. Inventing total bs as you go along. About Germans, about Catholics, about me.
Just take a good look at your chosen name: JudgemAll.
You are nothing but a cheap hater, with a God complex.
Not surprising a news article about the historic German budget surplus set you off. This is really bothering you, Good. Enjoy it.
Good luck with your free health care in Germany. It attracts terrorist migrants like fly on sht. Don’t come to the Us when they make
you share a retirment bed with a goat rapist.
Thank you Junker, thank you Merkel
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