Germany's Sudden Collapse is a WARNING to Trump & the U.S.A. [PREPARE]
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this is embarrassing as a German
American I know the Germans can be very
proud people and I'll tell you this is
not good German swap spreads have
collapsed into
inversion Sovereign credit worthiness
takes a slide now Germany is being
compared to
Italy now I don't know if you know much
about European politics but when you
start talking debt and Italy the first
word that comes to mind for people who
study the European Union is pig well
pigs Portugal Italy Greece Spain 2013
lots of debt austerity trash piling up
in the center of Athens because they
can't afford to pick up your freaking
trash everybody's jobless it's a
disaster it's hell well what's happening
in Germany right now some people are
saying is maybe the lead into a similar
kind of hell that you saw in 2013 and
quite frankly could be recessionary for
the United States as well so in this
video I'm going to explain what is going
on with Germany is it a potential
warning sign of what's to come in
America what could it mean for American
GDP is it going to push us into a
recession and much more so let's get
into it so first Germany's experiencing
significant political upheaval following
the collapse of their coalition
government okay big words bottom line in
the United States we got Trump who's a
republican you got Congress that's not
led by Republicans you got supreme court
that's basically led by Republicans okay
so it's kind of like you got like a one
party rule it's a this is why people are
like man this is like G Jin ping over
here in other words like you've got
control Consolidated right well in many
other countries Germany being one of
them the way you actually run a
government is no one party really sweeps
instead you're kind of like all right
you know group a you guys got 20% of the
vote Group B you guys got 30% of the
vote or call it 35% for simple math and
then group uh c d e and f and g or
whatever you all got I don't know 5 10
15% of the vote whatever and what
happens then is you get little parties
that group up they form little teams and
then they come up with fancy little
phrases or or examples for each other
and we're like V the traffic light if
this inde ample they
say Okay um so that's what Germany did
they had elections and they put together
a coalition government known as the
traffic light and that's because of the
colors of the different parties the
green yellow and red essentially and
this traffic light failed the power went
out it just didn't work in other words
the coalition government to get over 50%
of votes to actually get get things done
collapsed why did it collapse well
because politicians wanted more money
Olaf Schult is like they need to
suspend
zza the brza is is basically a break uh
they have sort of like we have a debt
ceiling they have something called a
debt break uh and they're like look
Schulz says we've got a lot of
priorities here we got a lot of work to
get done we need you to suspend the debt
limit otherwise you're fired and this
was with another Coalition member
specifically Christian Lindner the
Finance
Minister he is the leader of the free
Democratic party and uh linders lindler
lindler basically said no it's kind of
like hey Jerome Powell you want to step
down no will you lift the debt break no
but
no uh and Olaf Schulz is like well I am
the chancellor so you are
fired and the other dude's like V and
you don't have a coalition
government in other words now you go
back to the chancellor being part of the
minority can't get anything done so the
Chancellor's like fine I will hold hold
a vote of confidence to see if the
people support me and the answer is they
won't cuz you don't have a majority
government anymore so you're going to
get fired and you're not going to be
Chancellor anymore where's Mama Merkel
when you needer uh anyway actually the
CDU might come back into Power after all
of this that's the Christian Democratic
Union anyway uh this has a lot of
implications for the European stock
market the United States stock market
but I think it's
worth understanding some numbers first
and where this is all coming from and
and and why the Germans wanted more
money as well uh first let's just
briefly understand the connection
between the United States and Germany
just Germany alone causing problems
probably isn't a massive issue you know
Germany itself which it probably is is
on the borderline of a recession
and is probably not that big of a deal
uh I mean for the Germans it's going to
hurt but it probably doesn't hurt the
United States so much it's more so that
the United States trades a lot with the
entire Euro Zone and so the strongest
member of the Euro Zone Germany uh you
know collapsing well not collapsing but
but having problems is going to weigh
down the entire Euro Zone which could
then weigh down trade with Greece and
France and otherwise that is is
conducted with the United States the
United States uh we let's put it this
way the United States makes up of about
20% of the all of the Euro Zone exports
and we import out of a total of all of
our Imports about 17% from Germany in
total our trade with the Euro Zone makes
up about 5% of GDP so if our trade with
the Euro Zone drops the entire Euro Zone
by 30% it could lower our GDP by 1 and a
half% think about that 5% of
GDP is trade with the Euro Zone 30% drop
because of some recession or disaster or
whatever you lower our GDP by 1 and a
half% I'm not saying we're going to see
a 30% drop you know even even a 10% drop
would be a
problem but it's it's all of these
things that start contributing to
recessionary concerns you know if you
had one part of the world that was
trading so much with the United States
and we had so much growth then we'd be
less worried about a recession because
you'd actually be going in the opposite
direction but this is contributing to
pain and slowdown uh or the Slowdown
that we've been seeing in the United
States so far now sure we're still
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I'll give you my opinion on it but I
want you understand this uh we have
Germany's coalition government that is
now essentially collapsed and this
leaves a lot of issues on the table
where people are like oh you know we
don't know what's going to happen now
some of the issues in include the uh
deuts land ticket which was basically a
58 per month ultimate travel pass to
ride trains and public transit
throughout the entire country of Germany
for $58 a month it sounds pretty
freaking cheap but anyway while it's
popular it costs one and A5 billion EUR
and they need an agreement on that
that's probably dead now the SPD had a
plan for a guaranteed minimum pension of
48% that's probably going to get dropped
now there is support for Ukraine that is
a big priority but that might get
dropped too because now you don't have a
government that could actually pass
anything there were plans to pass laws
promoting hydrogen ready power stations
because you know in order for people to
actually want to buy hydrogen cars you
kind of need hydrogen gas stations first
otherwise people are like dude I ain't
driving an hour to fill up my hydrogen
car with hydrogen oops uh anyway then uh
you have a 2025 budget that probably
won't get passed before these snap
elections are going to be held we'll
talk about the elections in just a
moment uh and the new Finance Minister
confirmed that it's unlikely we're going
to get much done between now and when
elections are completed oops uh you've
also got uh Germany that needs to
continue funding their military develop
deployments like they're deployed in
Lithuania right now uh they are also
deploy well that's the Eastern flank
right against Russia uh they're
supporting Ukraine they've got us and
peacekeeping contributions they they
spent a lot of money okay the problem is
some people are wondering is this sort
of inversion that you're getting in the
bond market a sign of true uh fiscal
pain in in other words the government
like just failing to put money uh or how
should I put it uh failing to control
their fiscal
expenditures right uh is this a problem
of the government just failing in that
regard
or is the market starting to price in
real recessionary concerns not just
spending concerns see if all of the
spending that I just listed is not a
problem
anymore then the bond market should be
happy but it's not it's actually
inverting it's it's providing issues
it's it's providing warning signals but
the government can't spend money now so
then that has people going okay well
maybe that's because there are more
serious economic issues and again that
could hurt the United States I mean
consider this for a moment Germany
hasn't really grown in real you know
inflation adjusted terms in 6 years this
is the second year of contraction that
you're likely in you've got cyclical
problems you've got structural problems
you've got demographic problems you've
got labor shortages you have car
manufacturing issues the debt break uh
you've got a lot it's also worth knowing
that while Morgan Stanley thinks maybe
we finally hit a bottom in the Autos
Market in Germany and some people are
like oh maybe maybe I should buy Z dip
on uh you know Volkswagen after all
Volkswagen just invested like $800
million into rivan and it's leading
rivan stock to pop and people are like
Yay rivan is going to do well I mean
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on that channel uh but anyway let's
let's keep going here look at Volkswagen
for a moment
Volkswagen
Volkswagen they cut their annual Outlook
again their profit margins are now just
5.6% versus 6 and 1 12 to 7% where we
previously sat Tesla's at like 18%
margins okay so Tesla's just absolutely
freaking smoking them smoking uh sales
are expected uh to be down about 7even
of a percent from their prior forecast
where they were expecting actually some
growth and and Mercedes and BMW have
also been downgraded because of weak
China demand also Chinese competition
that you're now getting in Europe and
the Europeans are like oh the Chinese
are taking all of our work and oh these
Chinese cars they're actually good
quality huh interesting maybe we should
consider a Chinese vehicle for our
family or household you know these these
are all sort of considerations that are
going on in Europe right now and it's
kind of important to think about these
but Volkswagen is also now asking its
workers to basically ex voluntarily
accept wage
deflation uh hate saying that but it's
true wage deflation uh would be a
Volkswagen asking them all to take a uh
what do we got here to take a
10% wage cut yikes uh Q3 profit down 42%
also yikes not great workers have
actually been demanding a pay raise not
a pay cut uh but that doesn't seem like
it's going to be going anywhere because
uh well Volkswagen can't compete that's
why they're making a YOLO bet on rivan
they're like all right well if we're
going to get taken out by the EVS then
then uh let's at least uh hopefully be a
part of uh uh the the solution and U
make a YOLO B over there right anyway uh
management says labor costs reductions
are needed for competitiveness Germany's
trying to figure out what to do with
their pension plans sounds a lot like
Social Security and the problems you
have out here uh but anyway consider
this when when you put all this together
for a moment you have a country that is
it's like one of its main core
Industries auto manufacturing is getting
whacked by Chinese competition and
higher costs pensions and unions that
are making it harder for the companies
to adapt which is potentially leading to
up to three plant closures and thousands
of worker layoffs which isn't great
obviously for workers uh and then you're
sitting in what could potentially be a
recessionary environment which some are
saying is going to lead to a rise of the
right the Rd is going to take over uh
now some people really want them to take
over they're seeing as sort of more of a
anti-immigration
uh right-wing some people say far
right-wing party but you know what there
are a lot of Germans my father included
who I generally see as very neutral
they're like you know what we need to
stop spending ridiculously like drunken
Sailors and maybe we actually can focus
on growing the econom
with things that are going to make sense
for growth not more handouts or
giveaways uh one of the examples of a
handout or giveaway that he was talking
about is he was talking about how
Germany actually at one point had a plan
uh and and they may have actually
executed on on at least part of this but
they actually had a plan to spend money
Building green bike paths uh in Peru
uh I kid you not I'm just going to I
actually I tweeted this a few days ago
because I thought it was so mindblowing
uh this is from the German government
okay so you could see this directly from
them and listen to what they
say uh Chancellor Merkel and and Schulz
made these commitments okay great so
what are you going to do we're going to
create bicycle highways in one of South
America's biggest and fastest growing
cities these will have multiple benefits
if greenhouse gases are uh green
greenhouse gas emissions are reduced in
Peru because people will use our fancy
bike lanes that will spend millions of
dollars or millions of Euros on then
this is just as important for the people
in Germany as climate action at home
because in the long run a cleaner
climate in Peru will help our climate in
Germany okay yeah so they're going to
spend millions of dollars building clean
bike paths in Peru to try to help the
climate in
Germany yes so so I don't blame some
Germans who are like bro we're done
we're not willing to support this sort
of drunken sailor spending anymore no
thanks we're out of here so anyway
that's what's going on in Germany and
again can it affect the United States of
course the answer here is abso freaking
lutely and that's the scary part is
Germany goes poopy doopy could start
really Weighing on International Trade
then it hits us where it hurts which is
GDP and if we start adding to that the
layoffs that we might be getting in the
United States soon it's just a bad
potential recipe for disaster we are
clearly no longer in a growth cycle we
are in a contraction cycle in Germany is
pretty a good example of that now we'll
see what the Trump Administration and
leaders in the United States can do but
for now a lot of people concerned about
Germany and hopefully this catches you
up now I do want to quickly also just
mention when these elections are uh
because I think that's uh useful
information to know and I said I was
going to cover it uh so uh first you're
going to have a vote of confidence the
vote of confidence is really just a way
of saying okay do we you know can can we
keep going with the coalition government
or lack of you know the minority
government that you basically have right
now uh and the answer to that is
probably going to be no uh so the
current plan uh is to have a vote of
confidence uh in either December or
January probably December at this point
and then you'll have an actual snap
election tentatively set for February
23rd uh and then you would essentially
be able to determine okay who has the Le
leadership who has assigned votes then
you can come up with new um uh Coalition
governments essentially so the original
confidence vote was scheduled for Jan
16th uh and that's because Schultz had
hoped that he could still actually get
work done but that got moved up to
December 16th at the moment uh and if he
fails that confidence vote Parliament
will be dissolved they'll have a new
government February
23rd and it's possible that Schultz with
the social Democrats and the green party
might be able to work with the CDU to
get proposals done unless of course the
CDU tries to align with the linders and
the others uh in in which case uh
Schultz might just um have lost all his
power now he ended up by the way blaming
Lindner saying he was Lindner was being
selfish and focusing too much on his
party policies and politics over the
success of
Germany I don't know a lot of people on
both sides of this one going yeah but
you know they're also kind of tired of
the spending so I don't know let me know
what you think in the comments down
below thank you so much for watching
this breakdown on what the heck is going
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