700 new jobs for the “traffic light” – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing

we don’t know whether red-yellow-green will be the best federal government of all time, but it is already the biggest. My colleague Martin Greive tackled relevant surveying tasks with a slide rule and “Parkinson’s Law” from bureaucracy researcher Cyril Northcote Parkinson, with amazing results.

With the supplementary budget debated this Wednesday, the traffic light government will get up to 500 new jobs; in December it had already created almost 200 new ones. The number of parliamentary state secretaries also grows from 34 to 37, and that of civil servants from 31 to 37.

On the one hand, of course, the increase has to do with new tasks such as climate protection policy (Robert Habeck’s new spring and summer package), and on the other hand, with the first accession of three self-sufficient government parties. And since the Scholzians want to rule for eight years with their Magnum program, Parkinson’s first law also fits: “Work expands to the extent that time is available to do it.”

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In the creative work of the new government, it is noticeable that even a parliamentarian (PP) is under discussion, inspired by Amanda Gorman in Washington. Wonderful, unfortunately Gorman cannot be copied. A poet sat in the high house once before, taking notes from a “morgue of the parliamentary idea” and found: “Government parties do not control the cabinet, rather they accompany his actions with praise and gratitude. The opposition looks on and becomes more uncontrolled and angry in the face of the long, unsuccessful work. “

But that was 2013, and Roger Willemsen was dealing with black and yellow. Let’s see what the new PP finds, something like: “Errors have their value, / but only here and there. / Not everyone who goes to India discovers America. ”Erich Kästner left this as a reminder of“ creative error ”.

Germany’s share of high-tech goods exported worldwide has almost halved since 1990.

(Photo: Getty Images; Per-Anders Pettersson)

And now a message that points far less to “Magnum”, but rather to “Minimum”, a prize boxer who was once a champion. The simple but enlightening sentence: “Germany’s share of high-tech goods exported worldwide has almost halved since 1990.” What are meant are chips or airplanes whose sales outside the country are stagnating.

The figures come from the state-owned Society for Foreign Trade and Location Marketing and are commented on by Holger Görg, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, in the Handelsblatt: “That can endanger our prosperity, because these are the industries of the future.” While we’re at it, maybe we should also create a few new positions for high-tech funding.

Seven percent inflation is like all fire alarms in a city go on at the same time. In the US, Jerome Powell, head of the Fed, has now drawn the necessary conclusions. At his nomination hearing before the responsible Senate committee yesterday, he announced his willingness to raise interest rates from now 0 to 0.25 percent soon. The fact that consumer prices have so far exceeded the target value of two percent shows that there is no longer any need for a “very stimulating monetary policy”: “It is time to bring these emergency measures to a normal level.”

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been nominated for a second term by the US President.

The Fed will complete its multi-billion dollar bond purchases in March and then “raise the key rate during the year,” Powell, 68, continued. He is about to enter his second term. In the tower of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Sonnemannstrasse 20, at the top, you will certainly study the Washington turning maneuvers very carefully.

If one of his “Wimmel books” hit bookstores again, it wasn’t worth a review in a feature section. There was only something to see, big, colorful pictures with lots of details. For example, from the fair with a ferris wheel, with a man who slips and a rascal who hatches a prank. Or from beach life, where hippies, nudists, children dressed up as kings or sunbathing matrons with XXL sunglasses frolic.

That was the famous Wimmelwelt of Ali Mitgutsch from Munich-Schwabing, who was really called “Alfons” and had a giant schnauzer. Anyone who has had children since the first release was released in 1968 is very familiar with Mitgutsch. The Ravensburger Verlag had plenty of regular business until his retirement in 2017. Eight million copies have been sold. The children’s book genius with the beautiful sense of humor died on Monday evening at the age of 86.

Some people are surprised that the Archbishop of Cologne Rainer Maria Woelki is still in office – and many do not leave it at that because they are outraged by the handling of dealing with sexual abuse. Apparently never before have so many Catholics left the church in his archbishopric as in 2021. According to the Cologne District Court, the number of church departures (including Protestants) has generally almost doubled to 19,340 compared to the previous high of 10,073 in 2019.

The numbers leaving the Catholic Church suggest a “Woelki effect” for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine”.

The numbers from five other cities also suggest a “Woelki effect” for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine”. Bonn: 4116 Catholics left, two years earlier it was 1997. Düsseldorf: 3963 after 2826. Wuppertal and Leverkusen: each more than fifty percent plus. Only in Solingen did the number remain more or less constant. The Archdiocese of Cologne does not comment, but Tim Kurzbach, Chairman of the Cologne Diocesan Council and Solingen Mayor, says: “There is a blaze of fire under our church roof in the Archdiocese of Cologne.”

And then there is Kärcher, one of these Baden-Württemberg family businesses with a turnover of 2.7 billion euros and world-wide renown with its high-pressure cleaners. The main concern now comes from the headquarters in Winnenden that conservative French top politicians keep saying “careless” when they want to rid neighborhoods in the banlieue of Paris of crime. Nicolas Sarkozy, now presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse, once croaked verbally. It is true that bad PR is also good PR, but Kärcher attaches importance to the statement that Pécresses remark is “out of place” and “inappropriate” and endangers the brand.

Please media and politics to refrain from using this word. You don’t want to be associated with politics – but only with good cleaning work like recently on the obelisk on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. There has to be enough time for a clear differentiation.

I wish you a Karcher-free day, whatever you mean by that.

I warmly greet you
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Hans-Jürgen Jakobs
Senior Editor Handelsblatt

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