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Germany's Sudden Collapse is a WARNING to Trump & the U.S.A. [PREPARE]

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this is embarrassing as a German

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American I know the Germans can be very

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proud people and I'll tell you this is

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not good German swap spreads have

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collapsed into

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inversion Sovereign credit worthiness

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takes a slide now Germany is being

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compared to

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Italy now I don't know if you know much

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about European politics but when you

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start talking debt and Italy the first

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word that comes to mind for people who

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study the European Union is pig well

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pigs Portugal Italy Greece Spain 2013

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lots of debt austerity trash piling up

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in the center of Athens because they

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can't afford to pick up your freaking

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trash everybody's jobless it's a

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disaster it's hell well what's happening

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in Germany right now some people are

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saying is maybe the lead into a similar

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kind of hell that you saw in 2013 and

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quite frankly could be recessionary for

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the United States as well so in this

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video I'm going to explain what is going

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on with Germany is it a potential

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warning sign of what's to come in

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America what could it mean for American

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GDP is it going to push us into a

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recession and much more so let's get

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into it so first Germany's experiencing

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significant political upheaval following

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the collapse of their coalition

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government okay big words bottom line in

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the United States we got Trump who's a

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republican you got Congress that's not

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led by Republicans you got supreme court

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that's basically led by Republicans okay

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so it's kind of like you got like a one

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party rule it's a this is why people are

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like man this is like G Jin ping over

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here in other words like you've got

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control Consolidated right well in many

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other countries Germany being one of

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them the way you actually run a

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government is no one party really sweeps

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instead you're kind of like all right

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you know group a you guys got 20% of the

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vote Group B you guys got 30% of the

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vote or call it 35% for simple math and

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then group uh c d e and f and g or

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whatever you all got I don't know 5 10

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15% of the vote whatever and what

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happens then is you get little parties

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that group up they form little teams and

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then they come up with fancy little

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phrases or or examples for each other

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and we're like V the traffic light if

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this inde ample they

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say Okay um so that's what Germany did

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they had elections and they put together

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a coalition government known as the

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traffic light and that's because of the

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colors of the different parties the

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green yellow and red essentially and

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this traffic light failed the power went

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out it just didn't work in other words

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the coalition government to get over 50%

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of votes to actually get get things done

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collapsed why did it collapse well

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because politicians wanted more money

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Olaf Schult is like they need to

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suspend

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zza the brza is is basically a break uh

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they have sort of like we have a debt

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ceiling they have something called a

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debt break uh and they're like look

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Schulz says we've got a lot of

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priorities here we got a lot of work to

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get done we need you to suspend the debt

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limit otherwise you're fired and this

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was with another Coalition member

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specifically Christian Lindner the

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Finance

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Minister he is the leader of the free

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Democratic party and uh linders lindler

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lindler basically said no it's kind of

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like hey Jerome Powell you want to step

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down no will you lift the debt break no

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but

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no uh and Olaf Schulz is like well I am

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the chancellor so you are

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fired and the other dude's like V and

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you don't have a coalition

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government in other words now you go

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back to the chancellor being part of the

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minority can't get anything done so the

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Chancellor's like fine I will hold hold

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a vote of confidence to see if the

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people support me and the answer is they

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won't cuz you don't have a majority

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government anymore so you're going to

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get fired and you're not going to be

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Chancellor anymore where's Mama Merkel

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when you needer uh anyway actually the

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CDU might come back into Power after all

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of this that's the Christian Democratic

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Union anyway uh this has a lot of

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implications for the European stock

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market the United States stock market

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but I think it's

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worth understanding some numbers first

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and where this is all coming from and

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and and why the Germans wanted more

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money as well uh first let's just

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briefly understand the connection

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between the United States and Germany

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just Germany alone causing problems

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probably isn't a massive issue you know

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Germany itself which it probably is is

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on the borderline of a recession

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and is probably not that big of a deal

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uh I mean for the Germans it's going to

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hurt but it probably doesn't hurt the

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United States so much it's more so that

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the United States trades a lot with the

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entire Euro Zone and so the strongest

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member of the Euro Zone Germany uh you

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know collapsing well not collapsing but

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but having problems is going to weigh

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down the entire Euro Zone which could

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then weigh down trade with Greece and

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France and otherwise that is is

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conducted with the United States the

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United States uh we let's put it this

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way the United States makes up of about

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20% of the all of the Euro Zone exports

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and we import out of a total of all of

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our Imports about 17% from Germany in

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total our trade with the Euro Zone makes

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up about 5% of GDP so if our trade with

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the Euro Zone drops the entire Euro Zone

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by 30% it could lower our GDP by 1 and a

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half% think about that 5% of

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GDP is trade with the Euro Zone 30% drop

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because of some recession or disaster or

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whatever you lower our GDP by 1 and a

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half% I'm not saying we're going to see

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a 30% drop you know even even a 10% drop

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would be a

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problem but it's it's all of these

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things that start contributing to

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recessionary concerns you know if you

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had one part of the world that was

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trading so much with the United States

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and we had so much growth then we'd be

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less worried about a recession because

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you'd actually be going in the opposite

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direction but this is contributing to

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pain and slowdown uh or the Slowdown

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that we've been seeing in the United

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States so far now sure we're still

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propped up by artificial intelligence

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but if you haven't seen my video yet on

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artificial intelligence this morning uh

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and at least what you know what people

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are doing to try to expose open Ai and

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some of the pain that you're getting

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with Gemini and Claude I highly

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encourage you watch that artificial

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intelligence video it's on the channel

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here meet Kevin you know you know me I'm

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going to cover it TCH artificial

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intelligence politics Finance whatever

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I'll give you my opinion on it but I

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want you understand this uh we have

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Germany's coalition government that is

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now essentially collapsed and this

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leaves a lot of issues on the table

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where people are like oh you know we

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don't know what's going to happen now

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some of the issues in include the uh

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deuts land ticket which was basically a

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58 per month ultimate travel pass to

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ride trains and public transit

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throughout the entire country of Germany

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for $58 a month it sounds pretty

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freaking cheap but anyway while it's

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popular it costs one and A5 billion EUR

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and they need an agreement on that

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that's probably dead now the SPD had a

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plan for a guaranteed minimum pension of

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48% that's probably going to get dropped

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now there is support for Ukraine that is

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a big priority but that might get

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dropped too because now you don't have a

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government that could actually pass

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anything there were plans to pass laws

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promoting hydrogen ready power stations

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because you know in order for people to

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actually want to buy hydrogen cars you

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kind of need hydrogen gas stations first

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otherwise people are like dude I ain't

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driving an hour to fill up my hydrogen

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car with hydrogen oops uh anyway then uh

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you have a 2025 budget that probably

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won't get passed before these snap

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elections are going to be held we'll

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talk about the elections in just a

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moment uh and the new Finance Minister

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confirmed that it's unlikely we're going

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to get much done between now and when

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elections are completed oops uh you've

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also got uh Germany that needs to

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continue funding their military develop

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deployments like they're deployed in

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Lithuania right now uh they are also

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deploy well that's the Eastern flank

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right against Russia uh they're

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supporting Ukraine they've got us and

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peacekeeping contributions they they

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spent a lot of money okay the problem is

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some people are wondering is this sort

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of inversion that you're getting in the

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bond market a sign of true uh fiscal

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pain in in other words the government

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like just failing to put money uh or how

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should I put it uh failing to control

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their fiscal

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expenditures right uh is this a problem

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of the government just failing in that

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regard

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or is the market starting to price in

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real recessionary concerns not just

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spending concerns see if all of the

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spending that I just listed is not a

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problem

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anymore then the bond market should be

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happy but it's not it's actually

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inverting it's it's providing issues

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it's it's providing warning signals but

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the government can't spend money now so

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then that has people going okay well

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maybe that's because there are more

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serious economic issues and again that

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could hurt the United States I mean

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consider this for a moment Germany

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hasn't really grown in real you know

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inflation adjusted terms in 6 years this

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is the second year of contraction that

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you're likely in you've got cyclical

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problems you've got structural problems

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you've got demographic problems you've

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got labor shortages you have car

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manufacturing issues the debt break uh

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you've got a lot it's also worth knowing

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that while Morgan Stanley thinks maybe

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we finally hit a bottom in the Autos

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Market in Germany and some people are

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like oh maybe maybe I should buy Z dip

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on uh you know Volkswagen after all

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Volkswagen just invested like $800

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million into rivan and it's leading

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rivan stock to pop and people are like

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Yay rivan is going to do well I mean

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on that channel uh but anyway let's

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let's keep going here look at Volkswagen

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for a moment

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Volkswagen

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Volkswagen they cut their annual Outlook

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again their profit margins are now just

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5.6% versus 6 and 1 12 to 7% where we

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previously sat Tesla's at like 18%

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margins okay so Tesla's just absolutely

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freaking smoking them smoking uh sales

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are expected uh to be down about 7even

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of a percent from their prior forecast

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where they were expecting actually some

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growth and and Mercedes and BMW have

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also been downgraded because of weak

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China demand also Chinese competition

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that you're now getting in Europe and

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the Europeans are like oh the Chinese

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are taking all of our work and oh these

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Chinese cars they're actually good

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quality huh interesting maybe we should

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consider a Chinese vehicle for our

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family or household you know these these

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are all sort of considerations that are

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going on in Europe right now and it's

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kind of important to think about these

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but Volkswagen is also now asking its

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workers to basically ex voluntarily

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accept wage

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deflation uh hate saying that but it's

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true wage deflation uh would be a

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Volkswagen asking them all to take a uh

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what do we got here to take a

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10% wage cut yikes uh Q3 profit down 42%

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also yikes not great workers have

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actually been demanding a pay raise not

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a pay cut uh but that doesn't seem like

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it's going to be going anywhere because

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uh well Volkswagen can't compete that's

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why they're making a YOLO bet on rivan

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they're like all right well if we're

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going to get taken out by the EVS then

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then uh let's at least uh hopefully be a

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part of uh uh the the solution and U

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make a YOLO B over there right anyway uh

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management says labor costs reductions

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are needed for competitiveness Germany's

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trying to figure out what to do with

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their pension plans sounds a lot like

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Social Security and the problems you

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have out here uh but anyway consider

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this when when you put all this together

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for a moment you have a country that is

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it's like one of its main core

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Industries auto manufacturing is getting

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whacked by Chinese competition and

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higher costs pensions and unions that

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are making it harder for the companies

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to adapt which is potentially leading to

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up to three plant closures and thousands

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of worker layoffs which isn't great

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obviously for workers uh and then you're

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sitting in what could potentially be a

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recessionary environment which some are

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saying is going to lead to a rise of the

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right the Rd is going to take over uh

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now some people really want them to take

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over they're seeing as sort of more of a

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anti-immigration

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uh right-wing some people say far

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right-wing party but you know what there

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are a lot of Germans my father included

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who I generally see as very neutral

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they're like you know what we need to

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stop spending ridiculously like drunken

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Sailors and maybe we actually can focus

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on growing the econom

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with things that are going to make sense

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for growth not more handouts or

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giveaways uh one of the examples of a

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handout or giveaway that he was talking

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about is he was talking about how

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Germany actually at one point had a plan

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uh and and they may have actually

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executed on on at least part of this but

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they actually had a plan to spend money

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Building green bike paths uh in Peru

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uh I kid you not I'm just going to I

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actually I tweeted this a few days ago

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because I thought it was so mindblowing

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uh this is from the German government

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okay so you could see this directly from

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them and listen to what they

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say uh Chancellor Merkel and and Schulz

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made these commitments okay great so

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what are you going to do we're going to

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create bicycle highways in one of South

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America's biggest and fastest growing

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cities these will have multiple benefits

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if greenhouse gases are uh green

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greenhouse gas emissions are reduced in

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Peru because people will use our fancy

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bike lanes that will spend millions of

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dollars or millions of Euros on then

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this is just as important for the people

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in Germany as climate action at home

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because in the long run a cleaner

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climate in Peru will help our climate in

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Germany okay yeah so they're going to

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spend millions of dollars building clean

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bike paths in Peru to try to help the

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climate in

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Germany yes so so I don't blame some

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Germans who are like bro we're done

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we're not willing to support this sort

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of drunken sailor spending anymore no

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thanks we're out of here so anyway

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that's what's going on in Germany and

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again can it affect the United States of

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course the answer here is abso freaking

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lutely and that's the scary part is

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Germany goes poopy doopy could start

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really Weighing on International Trade

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then it hits us where it hurts which is

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GDP and if we start adding to that the

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layoffs that we might be getting in the

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United States soon it's just a bad

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potential recipe for disaster we are

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clearly no longer in a growth cycle we

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are in a contraction cycle in Germany is

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pretty a good example of that now we'll

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see what the Trump Administration and

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leaders in the United States can do but

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for now a lot of people concerned about

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Germany and hopefully this catches you

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up now I do want to quickly also just

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mention when these elections are uh

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because I think that's uh useful

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information to know and I said I was

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going to cover it uh so uh first you're

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going to have a vote of confidence the

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vote of confidence is really just a way

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of saying okay do we you know can can we

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keep going with the coalition government

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or lack of you know the minority

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government that you basically have right

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now uh and the answer to that is

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probably going to be no uh so the

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current plan uh is to have a vote of

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confidence uh in either December or

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January probably December at this point

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and then you'll have an actual snap

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election tentatively set for February

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23rd uh and then you would essentially

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be able to determine okay who has the Le

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leadership who has assigned votes then

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you can come up with new um uh Coalition

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governments essentially so the original

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confidence vote was scheduled for Jan

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16th uh and that's because Schultz had

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hoped that he could still actually get

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work done but that got moved up to

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December 16th at the moment uh and if he

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fails that confidence vote Parliament

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will be dissolved they'll have a new

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government February

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23rd and it's possible that Schultz with

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the social Democrats and the green party

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might be able to work with the CDU to

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get proposals done unless of course the

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CDU tries to align with the linders and

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the others uh in in which case uh

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Schultz might just um have lost all his

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power now he ended up by the way blaming

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Lindner saying he was Lindner was being

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selfish and focusing too much on his

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party policies and politics over the

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success of

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Germany I don't know a lot of people on

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both sides of this one going yeah but

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you know they're also kind of tired of

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the spending so I don't know let me know

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what you think in the comments down

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below thank you so much for watching

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this breakdown on what the heck is going

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on in D vand not advertise these things

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congratulations man you have done so

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much people love you people look up to

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you Kevin P there financial analyst and

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YouTuber meet Kevin always great to get

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your take

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