But it is a “let’s see!” or “It gets bad!” not what Anne Will wants to hear this time. Which is why Clemens Fuest from the Ifo Institute acts as a power guest this evening. You don’t have to be a clairvoyant to recognize a business climate crisis. But Fuest has numbers. A “shutdown” of one week “costs us”, ie the economy, “as much as the defense budget” of an entire year.
When, for example, he accepts a production stop until “end of May” for a horror scenario, Will immediately listens. But was supposedly not a hard date, not a “day X”, but really just an example. You are so nervous. Medium-sized or small entrepreneurs have every reason to do so.
Why Olaf Scholz and Peter Altmaier, as Altmaier says, are “busy every day”, “also over the weekend”, in order to initiate the provision of government-backed loans to bridal shops or podiatrists. You see, the problem is more with the banks – which are difficult to soften without an official check of the grants. After all, the states could, according to Altmaier, “access the money from tomorrow, from Monday” directly “at the federal government, completely unbureaucratically”.
“Working in a world that is dangerous”
Fuest concludes: “We have to be able to go to work and protect ourselves from infection”, the best of both worlds, because: “We have to work in a world that is dangerous”. It’s so. There is no other way. Finally, the threat to livelihoods “has a massive impact on human health”.
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Therefore, one can also think “out of the box” about lowering the medical standards in German clinics a little: “A simple mask is much, much better than no mask at all.”
When asked by Susanne Johna, why the country of “poets and thinkers and engineers” is actually not able to provide the appropriate material, Fuest explains: “We can not change that our industry makes cars and not masks.”
Which would put Germany and its current problem in a nutshell.
Icon: The mirror
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