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Will Germany’s current account surplus ever shrink?

Germany’s current account surplus is likely to narrow over the coming years, but we suspect that it will remain very large. So there is little chance that economic rebalancing in Germany will help to ease trade tensions within the EU or across the Atlantic.

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