This is the government’s most important goal: creating economic recovery. And actually there are positive signals. Our Merzometer shows its current progress.
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It won’t go down again. These are the results of the latest Merzometer evaluation. With this index, ZEIT documents the performance of the German economy – and measures the Chancellor’s reign Friedrich Merz on their promise to bring about an economic turnaround. In the third quarter of this year, the index for the first time reached a positive value, which can be interpreted as stabilization of the economic situation.
A significant increase in public investment occurred between July and September. They account for 3.2 percent of economic output: the highest value in a quarter of a century (if we do not take into account the crisis-related increase in spending during the Corona years).