Still, I strongly doubt that a doubling of the currency would be harmless for the export, so to maintain their sacrosanct trade surplus they would have to gut their consumptions outright.

And the whole point of having a trade surplus is to invest it. So that would make very little sense if the exchange rates eat it up.

The whole German model becomes moot without someone to pay for their mercantilist policies.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi