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Unemployment: EU vs. Germany
February 2, 2012 | From theTrumpet.com
EU unemployment skyrockets while Germany’s reaches record lows. Why is this so?
By Ron Fraser
By now it’s patently obvious to all. The eurozone has helped power Germany’s export economy to new heights, knocking its unemployment rate into record low territory, while driving the rest of Europe largely into recession.
How did this happen?
George Friedman of Stratfor sums it up thus (January 31; emphasis added throughout):
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