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At one end is a powerful and highly efficient industrial export engine that generates a large trade surplus with the rest of the world, including most other countries in the eurozone. Instead of spending this new export wealth on a higher standard of living, however, parsimonious Germans prefer to save it, handing it over to thinly capitalized German banks that have proved equally efficient in destroying said wealth by investing it in risky securities issued, not coincidentally, by trading partners that need the capital to finance their trade deficits with Germany. To prevent the collapse of those banks, German taxpayers are dragooned into using what remains of their hard-earned savings either to bail out their hapless banks or their profligate trading partners.
Amen! Wir nehmen eine Tonne Geld ein, und erhöhen damit nicht unseren Lebensstandard, sondern legen es bei Banken an, die es dann in riskanten Auslandsgeschäften verpulvern, und zwar ironischerweise in den Ländern, die das Kapital benötigen, um uns weiterhin unsere Produkte abzukaufen. (Danke, Oliver)