‘Verdammt’: Just when you thought the worst was over, Germany’s economy moved dangerously close to falling ‘over the edge’ into recession
“Whatever happened in the second half of last year got worse in Q1, and is now threatening to push the German economy over the edge.”” writes Will Martin for businessinsider.com. They had expressed hope that with those factors out of the way the economy would pick up again in 2019.Pantheon Macroeconomics’ Claus Vistesen had a similarly bleak message about the Ifo survey, noting that the headline figure was “horrible,” and delivers a “somber message” about the German economy.Germany may have narrowly avoided a technical recession at the end of 2018,…
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