After qualifying for low German interest rates overnight, citizens entered a spiral of private debt.
Speaking mostly Low German (the majority of Belizeans speak Kriol or Spanish as their first language), they run their own schools, banks and churches.
It took over 18 years after unification for the East German rate to equal the, already extremely low, West German rate.
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The notable news was record low yields on German 10-year bonds fetched Wednesday, at 1.31%.
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Soon after, Mr Trichet oversaw the change to an anti-inflationary franc fort (strong franc) policy, to pave the way for currency union with the strong, low-inflation German mark.
German coach Joachim Low is also trying to keep politics out of the last-eight clash as his side bid to bag a first major trophy since Euro '96.
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More recently profligate countries in the euro zone have hidden behind German fiscal credibility and low interest rates to build a way of life that they could not afford, and which the Greek debt crisis blew apart a few months ago.
But projects such as the Bahnstadt show the energy revolution and European efficiency goals "have put very low energy buildings much more strongly in investors' focus, " said Stephan Sperl, a spokesman for German state lender KfW Bankengruppe, which offers low-interest construction loans for energy-efficient residential buildings.
Even with the recent rise, German yields remain almost unimaginably low by historic standards.
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Mr. Pearson pointed to the low cost of finance accessible to many German companies and to their often strong performance in export markets.
It ended suddenly when German forces surged through the low countries, conquered France, and threw the British into the sea at Dunkirk.
German bond yields hit another record low at the latest auctions Wednesday, which is another sign of the keen risk-aversion in the market place.
The euro fell 0.4% to 1.41 against the dollar Monday, and the 10-year German bund fell to a record low yield at 1.92% as prices climbed.
The German right-back's low cross was volleyed first time by Vennegoor of Hesselink and goalkeeper Janos Balogh was slow to get down to his left as the ball trickled into the net.
KfW backs export-oriented firms and small businesses, lending at low rates, and deals with the privatisation of German state-owned enterprises.
Because of its long track record of delivering low inflation, occasional overshoots have not undermined the German central bank's credibility.
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That kind of premium business is what a mainstay of the old printing industry--Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, a low-profile, 152-year-old German press manufacturer--is after.
The investigator, German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, took a low-key approach that contrasted sharply with the tenor of his report, which cited witnesses who named Syrian and Lebanese officials as suspects in the assassination.
German industry cannot compete with Chinese labour on low-end items, it is argued.
But the German-born Ms. Kruger is actually low key, surprisingly personable and unabashedly brainy equally versed in the European crisis as she is in the history of couture.
German 30-year bund yields fell to a record low at a government auction Wednesday.
The East German experience suggests all such estimates will be far too low.
The yield on the ten-year German Bund touched 3% last week, an historic low and more than a percentage point below America's comparable bond.
Ifo's findings on the glum mood among German firms follows data on Tuesday from ZEW indicating German investor confidence had fallen to a six-month low.
There was only one low level report scheduled from the euro area today and that was German Import Prices which increased to a growth rate of 0.6% on a month-over month basis.
But the last decade has been horrendous for German clubs in the Champions League, largely because they have low ticket prices and a low value of domestic broadcast rights.
The Greek-German spread went from around 9.50 percentage points to a low of 4.42 within a week.
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At least for now this icon of German industry is thriving despite being based in a nation suffering from low economic growth, the worst unemployment in decades and stultifying regulation.
Just when German consumers seem to have recovered their confidence, after years of low wage-growth and worries about jobs and pensions, the government wants to raise value-added tax by three percentage points next January.
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