Back to fowednesdayPart of the abandoned coal and steel production plant in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. The landscape park Duisburg-Nord is a public park around a disused iron and steel works in Duisburg, Germany.© Daniela Baumann/ shutterstock.comSeptember has been a month of grim news about the German economy. Inflation, which brings back the specter of the 1920s, remains stubbornly high. The Federal Statistical Office tells us that the inflation rate, “measured as the year-on-year change in the consumer price index (CPI), stood at +6.1% in August 2023.”It is not just the...…Back to fowednesdayPart of the abandoned coal and steel production plant in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. The landscape park Duisburg-Nord is a public park around a disused iron and steel works in Duisburg, Germany.© Daniela Baumann/ shutterstock.comSeptember has been a month of grim news about the German economy. Inflation, which brings back the specter of the 1920s, remains stubbornly high. The Federal Statistical Office tells us that the inflation rate, “measured as the year-on-year change in the consumer price index (CPI), stood at +6.1% in August 2023.”It is not just the...WW…

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