Whereas unemployment in the US has been rising for one and a half years, Germany currently is enjoying its lowest unemployment rate in 16 years. The German construction industry and retailing are still stable, as the latest survey of the Ifo Institute shows, and the whole world is profiting from this stability, as Germany is the second largest importer of goods and services after the US.
美国的失业率在过去一年半时间里一直在上升，而德国目前的失业率却是16年以来最低的。Ifo研究所最新的调查显示，德国的建筑和零售行业依旧稳定。全世界也从这一稳定局面中收益，因为德国是仅次于美国之后的世界第二大商品和服务进口国。美国进口大幅度下降，而德国进口却在没有经济刺激计划的情况下维持原状。这就是为何德国人疑惑外国人的批评是否公平。