Headline, July 04 2026/ TIMES : ''' GERMAN STUDENTS GESTATE '''

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''' GERMAN STUDENTS GESTATE '''

HONOURS : THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY - for every subject in the world - is the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student of Germany. Just as it is in its entirety the ownership of every student in the world.

! LIVELY ART ! : WELCOME with great humbleness to the great nation of Germany - its students, parents, professors and Teachers.

OPINION : GERMANY HAS JUST SO MANY PROBLEMS. But the economy is just about the biggest. The economy, known for years for its efficiency, orderliness and stability is now in one terrible mess.

BERLIN : It's a tough tough time for German people and students. A year into Chancellor Friedrich Merz's tenure, his approval ratings are low and the coalition government he leads is roundly disliked.

Capitalizing on widespread discontent, the far-right alternative for Germany is rising in the polls, rising closer to power.

To make matters worse, America in a Trumpian tantrum, has announced a withdrawal of troops from the country, endangering its bedrock geopolitical relationship. 

All the features that defied Germany's recent past - political stability, social cohesion, and Atlanticist foreign policy - are under threat.

YET underlying all these problems is a more profound one. The German economy, once known for its efficiency, orderliness and stability, is in a terrible mess.  It's not that just numbers are dire, though the country has basically been in a recession for three years.

Or that last month, the venerable weekly Die Zeit ran a series titled '' Where Germany Still Works '' -which means that the situation must be pretty bad indeed.

No, the worst of it is that our dynamic economy gave postwar Germany a sense of identity. For all our flaws, we had a country that functioned better than the others. Now it doesn't anymore, and we're mystified.

Yet a better economy is possible. It might not alter the country's political trajectory, and it certainly won't placate an aggrieved President Trump. But it can turn the tide on stagnation and restore the fabled resilience of German businesses.

Commentators tend to focus on today's troubles. The economy's rise and fall is a much older story, though. At its most prosperous, Germany was high tax, high wage, big-bureaucracy country - something to remember for those whose recipe for renewal is simply to cut the cost of doing business.

In the postwar decades of vigorous growth, the economy itself resembled the kind of product that it so excellently manufactured, an expensive and highly complicated machine whose cogs meshed.

Those cogs included an. education system geared toward supplying businesses with technically proficient workers; managers trained as engineers or scientists rather than as generalists; banks and insurers with major stakes in the largest companies and focused on long-term goals over short-term profits.

And stable labour relations that offered workers secure and well paid jobs as well as a vote in key decisions.

Together, these elements contributed to the technological superiority long associated with the Made-in-Germany brand.

Yet when the American economy pulled ahead in the 1990s, fueled by the financial muscle of Wall Street and the fierce entrepreneurialism of Silicon Valley, we ran out of ideas.

Eager for something new, the economy opened up to foreign capital : Banks and Insurers sold their stakes in German companies and corporate executives targeted international investors.

In an attempt to regain competitiveness, the Government of Gerhard Schroeder reformed the country's rigid labor market and did away with some of the protections that workers had enjoyed.

On the face of it, Germany thrived in the first two decades of the new century, weathering the financial crisis better than the others and hanging on to its industrial core.

The Honour and Serving of the latest Global Operational Research on the state-of-the-world and its economies continues. !WOW! thanks Konstantin Richter.

With most dedication to the Leaders of the world, the Global Founder Framers of The World Students Society, and then Students, Professors and Teachers.

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