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A zombie from the Wirtschaftswunder

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Jörg Luyken
Mar 16, 2023
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Dear Reader,

As inflation started to bite last year and central banks reluctantly reacted by hiking interest rates, Germans began to wonder which companies would turn out to be ‘zombies’ that had been kept alive by cheap debt during the era of zero interest.

Few will be surprised to learn that the first member of t…

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