By P Gosselin on 19. November 2025
BlackoutNews here reports that the German economy is currently battling massive turbulence as the latest figures on corporate insolvencies reached peaked in October 2025.
The German middle class, in particular, is increasingly coming under pressure amid the ongoing slump.
The wave of insolvencies is not hitting all sectors equally. Particularly hard hit: tranport, construction and restaurants and catering services.
In early August 2025, authorities reported 1,979 corporate insolvency applications, which corresponds to an increase of over twelve percent compared to the previous year. At the same time, creditor claims surged to a staggering €5.4 billion. Adding to the burden on society: With 6,132 consumer insolvencies, this figure is also rising significantly.
High energy prices
According to Blackout News, the reasons for this dramatic increase are multifaceted and reinforce each other. No.1 are the painfully high energy costs and rising raw material prices. Green energy has made energy among the most expensive in the world.
The economic woes has led to low domestic demand which particularly affects retail and service providers.
Crippling bureaucracy and slow approval procedures are also to blame as they hinder urgently needed investments.
Future looks bleak
Experts expect around 24,500 corporate failures for the entire year 2025, the highest value since 2015.
A rapid recovery is nowhere in sight. Allianz Trade has dampened expectations and forecasts a possible improvement starting only in 2027 at the earliest, contingent on state stimuli and geopolitical stabilization.
Without fundamental changes—such as investments in location attractiveness, a more stable energy supply, and tax simplification—the German economy faces a permanent loss of substance. The current development is an urgent wake-up call for politicians and businesses alike.
Germany serves as an example of how not to manage energy supply and economics in a country.
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Just Germany?
Just as in Britain Germans have voted again and again and got the same shit under a different name = mandatory mass invasion, green energy, war.
And who doesn’t vote for the uniparty(German Republicans = CDU&FDP
Democrats also pretend to be 2 parties = SPD&Green)
is Nazi.
In Germany they recently had to phase the Green Party out of government for strategical reasons (as result of Ukraines dire manpower situation) ,
as it was impossible to start the transition towards a mandatory conscription without completely destroying the Green parties reputation,
therefore a pseudo -election was held to continue the exact same policy(+ conscription) under a Christian(satanic branch – I guess) lead with a Blackrocknig… absolutely sovereign new chancellor who broke all primises day 1.( and most conservatives were surprised; that’s how stupid the majority of them is)
Canada, Australia and New Zealand are in the same boat.
Germany is sunk to the gunwales, along with the UK.
But apparently, all their populations “will own nothing, and be happy” under Net Zero.
How’s that working out for us all so far?
No, every country following the economically highly toxic Green Deal:
Here the graph of industrial output of Germany (from Germanys bureau of statistics Destatis) Blue line is the production index of all industries, red line the production index of energy intensive industries. :
Here is a graph for Austria from the libertarian think tank Agenda Austria. The exports outside EU are literally plummeting.
Except for the Covid spike, looks sort of like a hockey stick.
I recall the Germans have always feared a war on two fronts.
“The German middle class, in particular, is increasingly coming under pressure amid the ongoing slump.”
“the painfully high energy costs”
I can relate to that and more. But it gets worse, well, it would, wouldn’t it.
“Germany is headed towards a pension apocalypse driven by demographic decline. In the coming years, our population of pensioners will balloon relative to the working population funding those pensioners. This is a disaster that has been in the making for decades, and there is no longer any solution to it.”
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“You could see it coming from a long way off, for example with the decision to open our borders in 2015, which always had a fiscal subtext even if that was not the primary reason for Merkel’s idiocy.”
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“This is only a preview of the bitter, intergenerational struggle to come, which will split our politics” – Daily Sceptic
Meanwhile, guess what they want at the COP? More money [that we don’t actually have], of course
Industrialised nations need to step up on climate finance if there is to be a realistic road to reduce the world’s fossil fuel dependency, the director of Power Shift Africa, Mohamed Adow said
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“They can offer not only more resources in banks, in multinational development banks; put more public money in funds like the green climate fund or the global environment facility, but there are an increasing number of alternatives like debt-for-nature swaps and other [instruments].” – The Groan
It looks bleak for the German middle classes, and us Englanders
Why? The ECB could just print more fiat euros like they have been doing for years to finance the green stuff and the wars. They have been inflating the Euro like there is no tomorrow. Why do we think everything is so expensive in Europe?
If you have a cost of living crisis would you really want to make it even worse? Digital wheelbarrows full of soldi?
If the money supply increases faster than output then inflation will occur. It’s a real bind.
Germany also had the problem, like the UK, that all the mainstream political parties agreed on energy policy. So voting for a change in energy policy had other issues.
and it’s not just insolvencies. Germany sitting on a ticking pensions bomb due to gween psychosis
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/germanys-looming-pension-apocalypse
That’s a lie to have a reason to get more immigrants to enter europe.
With all the automation there is no need for a bigger workforce.
That’s a lie. Most government pension schemes are Ponzi schemes. Current workers are taxed to pay pensions. When the ratio of current workers to retirees falls, the tax rate has to be raised to maintain retiree benefits.
Immigration is an alternative to raising the tax rate because it raises the worker::retiree ratio. It’s a lousy alternative, but the only other choices are increase the tax rate or decrease retiree benefits.
Edit: automation has nothing to do with it. Increasing worker productivity just provides an excuse to raise the tax rate. It does not provide more workers or raise the worker::retiree ratio.
Thank goodness for IRA’s, 401K’s and company pensions. They may stave off total poverty when social security fails.
I’ve been guessing with myself how “they” will stave off SSA disaster. Some combination of raising FICA payroll deductions and means-testing benefits is my guess, primarily because the $2 trillion a year deficits are going to get worse on their own, the Fed won’t be able to cover up inflation for much longer, and more old-fashioned borrowing just won’t cut it.
They will rob your IRAs and 401ks before they let SSA fail, probably with enhanced mandatory withdrawals and focused taxes, and I wouldn’t put much faith in company pensions surviving such a shit storm. Just as there are no legal guarantees about collecting from Ponzi pension fake SSA accounts, there are no legal guarantees they won’t tax IRAs and 401ks. If they get desperate, all bets are off the table.
ETA: Look at how FDR devalued gold and made it illegal by executive order, and Congress retroactively approved it. Government is lawless when push comes to shove.
But the immigrants have to enter the workforce, and not just add to
the welfare burden.
It would also be nice if they bought into the established social & legal structure and did not try to change things to be like their home nation.
Substituting reliable power generating with windmills and industrial solar is the root of Germany’s economic problems.
If they don’t get over their CO2 phobia, Germany is going off the cliff.
Self-inflicted. The economic Trainwreck coming is obvious. Delusional German politicians can’t see it. They are blinded by CO2 phobia.
The same goes for the UK.
You can take it as read the the UK is still all in. Batman and Robin said so:
Keir Starmer warned that the “consensus is gone” on fighting climate change, but that the UK was still “all in”. Prince William called for “urgent optimism” and unity between nations – Fake News Inc
Last night got down to -6C. We haven’t had the budget yet…
That’s chilly.
I hope the wind is blowing and the sun is shining over there. 🙂
Sun shining? In Britain?
That’s a good one.
And to make matters worse the UK has just offered Electricity price discounts to Data Centres. Why not for the rest of us when allegedly Green Energy is cheaper. We are being Lied to. Manufacturing is moving overseas taking jobs with them and we promote worker free Data Centres.
The elites tend to look after their own interests and view the public as an irritating inconvenience.
Used to have a joke at most places I worked, that the job sure would have been easier without customers complaining. The difference is, we knew it was a joke.
AI are easier to control than humans and allegedly can work better.
So go with the AI and eliminate the humans.
With humans gone there is no energy crunch for the AI.
Seems a perfect plan, right?
Only a couple of problems to iron out, right? Like humans do not want to cease to exist and the elites will still be humans… Until one or more scifi storylines become reality.
Good thing is that all those immigrants soon will leave. Do we really think they want to live in poverty?.
And in a cold and wet Germany?
But they don’t live in poverty, that’s the point. Native people do.
Schemes to hand “asylum seekers” priority access to NHS treatment have sparked outrage after it emerged migrants are being given “preferential medical treatment” over British taxpayers. – GBNews
That includes the biggest rarity – a dentist. Taxis laid on, too.
Then local government does its part. Spoiler Wandsworth Council (Labour) is my council…
Dentists are becoming very rare in US too. Some folks drive over 100 miles one way to get care. We have lost half dozen or so in last five years. You can sign up on a waiting list and if lucky get in to expensive care locally.
Good! The moronic people of Germany voted for this and they need to suffer for their stupidity.
The good news: more room for wind turbines and minarets.
Maybe the minarets could do double duty with wind blades at the top. 🙂
or the wind tower with blades could do minarets duties and treat visiting worshipers the same as eagles?
We told you so but you insisted we were the alarmists and didn’t know what we were talking about.
Peak … so far.
Hillary and other high castle elites told you to learn to code. She and the Party were speaking to the entire fossil fuels industry and economies.
The people, politicians, and the scientists of the UK, Germany, Australia, California, and New York need to learn of the late John L. Daly’s website:
“Still Waiting For Greenhouse” available at: http://www.john-daly.com. Shown below is the homepage. He found over 200 weather stations that showed no warming up to 2002.
To access the temperature plots of weather stations, from the home page, page down to the end and click on “Station Temperature Data”. On the “World Map” click on a region or country. There will be displayed a list of weather stations. Click on a entry in the list to obtain the chart for the weather station. Click on the back arrow to return to the list of the stations. Clicking on the back arrow again displays the “World Map”.
In 1900, the concentration of CO2 in dry air was ca. 295 ppmv. One cubic meter of this air had mass of 1,290 g and contained 0.58 g of CO2 at STP. By 2000, the concentration of CO2 had increased to 370 ppmv. One cubic meter of air contained only 0.73 g of, a 21% increase from 1900.
At the MLO in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 dry air is currently
425 ppmv. One cubic meter of this air has a mass of 1,290 g and contains 0.83 g of CO2. Note how little CO2 there is the air. This small amount of CO2 in air can not absorbed enough out-going long wavelength IR light emanating from the earth’s surface to heat up such a large mass of air.
The above empirical data and calculations falsifies the claims by the IPCC that CO2 causes “global warming” and is the “control knob” of climate change. The objectives of these claims by the IPCC since 1988 is to justify its continuing maintenance and funding, and to provide the UN the reason for the distribution of donor funds from the rich countries to poor countries to help them cope with the alleged harmful effects of of global warming and climate change.
At COP30 the poor countries have come to the conference clamoring not for billions of but trillions of funds. Unfortunately for them, they will leave the conference empty handed with no pledges of funds from the rich countries.
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The deindustrialization is happening in the ENTIRE West.
We are the fattened calf now being slaughtered.
It is our own fault, of course. The carrots are routinely returned to office, no matter how stupid their policies since they also control the ‘vote counting’.
We saw it in 2020 and in 2024, as have the French, Germans, Brits, and others. One illegal alien = one vote and there are many MILLIONS.
Germany also struggles with overaging and maintaining a strong social net and health system plus an ever increasing national debt. All together this leads to a high tax, energy costs and taxes add to it, but they might be another symptom rather than the root cause..the middle class gets shaved like sheep..
Regarding financing retirement: In the USA, there are defined benefit pension plans and defined contribution savings plans. The assumptions about pensions are rarely, if ever, met. Companies falter and disappear. The fallback is always less. In the USA, Chicago is the showpiece for public failure with over $53 billion in unfunded liabilities.
When given the opportunity to opt out of the pension type and transfer to a defined contribution type, we were in line as soon as the forms to do so became available. The burdens of investing can be very simple and safe – or not!
Using the site ” populationpyramid dot net “, one can compare the cohorts of different countries. A population forecast out to 2100 is also given. Error bands are not shown. 🙂
Germany serves as an example of how worthless government is at handling things like goods and services. Wake up and always remember the only way government can give you anything is to take it from someone else. It is a bad thing.
When I was in high school civics, it was pointed out-rather pointedly-that governments should build roads and bridges because those build an economy, not give money away, and not steal from Social Security. Also, to not permit inflation, which as we all have seen is just another tax-a sneaky one-but a tax. And to keep money sound. Wonder what happened. Oh, yeah-Democrats and grift…
Great! Soon the economy will totally crash and they’ll be living the green low-carbon nirvana of the 8th or 9th century.
Too late. Companies gave you 2 years to offer solutions, they did nothing. Energy is everything, we only see prices go up in the future. Even if they start building gas power plants it takes minimum 5 years. Too late. Nobody can believe a total collapse, that’s why they don’t act. EU is finished, most of the western world is.