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Dr. Rainer Zitelmann

Dr. Rainer Zitelmann

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The Country That Needs Talent Is Importing Welfare Dependency and Exporting Its Best

The Country That Needs Talent Is Importing Welfare Dependency and Exporting Its Best

Germany: Migration That Harms Rather Than Helps the Economy Every year since 2011, more than one million people have immigrated to Germany from...

01.06.2026 7

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Dr. rainer zitelmann

Germany Shut Down Its Nuclear Plants. Now It's One of Europe's Biggest CO2 Emitters.

Germany Shut Down Its Nuclear Plants. Now It's One of Europe's Biggest CO2 Emitters.

High Energy Costs Are Strangling Companies in Germany For decades, BASF was not only Germany’s largest chemical company, but at times also the...

31.05.2026 5

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Germany's Economic Stagnation Has a Root Cause — and It's in the Classroom

Germany's Economic Stagnation Has a Root Cause — and It's in the Classroom

From Innovation Leader to Educational Decline: Germany’s Growing Crisis According to a study commissioned by UNICEF, only 60 percent of 15-year-olds...

30.05.2026 5

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Germany's Bureaucracy Crisis: How Red Tape Is Costing the Economy €146 Billion a Year

Germany's Bureaucracy Crisis: How Red Tape Is Costing the Economy €146 Billion a Year

How Bureaucracy Is Strangling Germany For seven years, Germany’s economic output has stagnated, and one of the causes is rampant bureaucracy. There...

29.05.2026 5

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Mars Colonization and the Economic Future of SpaceX

The goal of colonizing our neighboring planet is how Musk intends to transform humanity into a multi-planetary species. He aims to settle one million...

23.05.2026 10

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Why Democracy Needs the Rich

In 2021 and 2022, a representative survey on attitudes toward the market economy and capitalism was conducted in 34 countries. Among other things,...

03.05.2026 10

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No Billionaires? How Much Inequality Is Too Much?

Anyone who accuses the left of egalitarianism is met with swift rebuke: “We accept differences between people, including differences in income and...

22.04.2026 20

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