Last week, Vladimir Putin released a massive speech that clearly outlined his strategy to bring Europe to its knees.
For decades, Europe’s business model has been largely structured around cheap energy and input costs used to produce good-quality manufactured goods to export around the world - Germany being a prime example of such business model.
Due to globalization, ageing demographics and technological advances real output growth wasn’t necessarily spectacular and most importantly interest rates headed lower and lower over time.
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