Pity the poor Germans. Never mind that two Bundesliga teams are in the Champions League football final this month. Or that the Dax index of German stocks hit an all-time high this week. Or that industrial production – manufacturing output was up 1.4 per cent month on month in March – is on a roll. As a controversial recent survey from the European Central Bank shows, there is a fundamental paradox about the eurozone’s biggest economy – rich Germany, poor Germans. Go figure.
“贫穷”的德国人真值得同情。没错,两支德甲(Bundesliga)球队将在本月的欧冠联赛(Champions League)决赛中相遇,德国Dax股指本周创下新高,德国工业产出持续强劲、3月份制造业产出环比增长1.4%,但这些都不重要。重要的是,欧洲央行(ECB)近期一份备受争议的调查显示,欧元区的最大manbetx20客户端下载 体存在着一个根本性的矛盾现实:德国很富足,但德国人却不富。怎么会是这样?