German stimulus no game changer for euro-zone

With the euro-zone economy slowing and the ECB short of ammunition, there will be growing calls for a big fiscal stimulus from Germany. However, we suspect that the German government will fall short of the fairly modest stimulus in its 2019 budget, and any benefits for the euro-zone as a whole will be small.

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