When Christian Lindner stood in front of the television cameras at the IMF headquarters in Washington in April of this year, he was clearly trying to get something straight. It is true that Germany is not growing as strongly as other countries, the finance minister admitted. Predicting a recession, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) does in its just published World Economic Outlook (WEO), is clearly too pessimistic. “This does not correspond to the expectations we have regarding the growth prospects of the German economy,” said Lindner.
Global economy: According to the IMF forecast, Germany remains bottom of the class – economy
