Have we underestimated Germany?

The recent rise in some of the German business surveys has prompted optimistic media reports about Germany saving the euro-zone, acting as Santa, being a twinkling Christmas star in the euro-zone gloom etc. We are sorry to say that, whichever way we look at it, such optimism seems overdone.

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