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At the moment you have recession in Germany, Japan and the UK. While there is growth in the US, India and China.

Wonder how long this will last …

Isn't Germany in recession because it's no longer able to compete on its manufacturing?

Which would be different reason to the UK, which never had a competitive manufacturing industry in recent decades.

I'm sure the lack of cheap energy (ie, due to the shutdown and then bombing of Nordstar pipelines) has something to do with it