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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by lispm on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:31PM (#14435291)
Germany was already the world's second largest exporter in 1960. With the DM.
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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by tiatia on Sunday May 28, 2017 @01:40PM (#14435329)
There is nothing bad in being a large or the largest exporter. Germany exported a lot and imported a lot. But recently this had led to the absurd situation, that Germany exports both, goods AND capital: https://www.querschuesse.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/1a18....

This is not sustainable.

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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by lispm on Sunday May 28, 2017 @02:19PM (#14435464)
> Germany exported a lot and imported a lot.

Germany exports more than it imports, at least since the 60s.

> But recently this had led to the absurd situation, that Germany exports both, goods AND capital

Not recently. Happened already in the 70s and 80s. The decade after reunification was unusual. Starting with 2001 Germany was back exporting capital.

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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by tiatia on Sunday May 28, 2017 @02:37PM (#14435529)
Did you bother clicking the link? No.
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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by lispm on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:33PM (#14435742)
Sure. The graphic is misleading, since it is not adjusted to GDP - thus it does not show the proportions of exports in relation to the size of the economy.
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