{"id":19918,"date":"2025-11-11T04:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=19918"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:15:38","slug":"wie-donald-trump-seine-rekordwirtschaft-erfand-eine-investigative-recherche-ueber-eine-grosse-luege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wie-donald-trump-seine-rekordwirtschaft-erfand-eine-investigative-recherche-ueber-eine-grosse-luege\/","title":{"rendered":"How Donald Trump Invented His Record Economy \u2013 An Investigative Report on a Grand Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

We researched the total return of stocks in leading industrial nations. Germany is comparatively more stable - not a bad picture, but that of an aging yet resilient economy that, despite energy crises, slow bureaucracy reform, labor shortages, and global uncertainties, appears battered but far more robust than its reputation suggests and has not thrown itself off balance. There are mistakes, yes, but not such systemic self-sabotage as under Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Germany with a strong presence at IREE 2025 - Asia\u2019s largest fair for the railway and transport sector - with more than 50 participating companies<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Berlin should only be careful not to fall into the right-wing populist pattern of the United States. Such a political aberration would inevitably lead to a decline in investment, growing uncertainty, and a noticeable deterioration in economic stability. In the end, it would not affect \u201cthe elites,\u201d but the population itself - with a declining quality of life, less social cohesion, and a society that step by step moves away from reason and responsibility. While Washington scares off investors and allows entire industries to bleed out, Berlin at least holds on to reliability, social partnership, and the rule of law in planning. Anyone in Germany who wants to demand or copy a policy modeled on the AfD should take a close look at where it has led in the United States: into waves of layoffs, isolation, and economic chaos. That would not be a course of renewal but a direct path into the same catastrophe - without ifs or buts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The growth of the US market since Trump took office on January 19, 2025, was only +13 percent. Yet it was one of the president\u2019s favorite arguments: the supposedly \u201cstrongest stock market in the world.\u201d Donald Trump referred in almost every public appearance to rising prices, spoke of an \u201cunprecedented boom,\u201d and declared Wall Street a symbol of his economic genius. But the numbers, viewed soberly, tell a different story, just not Donald Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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hat is not a crash, but it shows how Trump\u2019s policy has failed - especially when put into perspective: In Spain, stock prices rose by 61 percent over the same period, in Austria by 58 percent, in Finland by 45 percent, in Ireland by 42 percent, and in Hong Kong by 41 percent. Even countries with political instability or limited domestic markets, such as Italy (+39 percent) or Portugal (+35 percent), developed more dynamically than the United States. This puts the US market only in 20th place out of 22 developed economies. Only New Zealand (0 percent) and Denmark (-17 percent) performed worse. Even classic stability markets such as Germany (+24 percent), Japan (+29 percent), or Canada (+24 percent) clearly outperformed the US. The claim of a \u201cunique success story\u201d does not stand up to this reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For comparison: as of November 7, 2024, the S&P 500 had risen by more than 25 percent in that year - a momentum that a year later under Trump slowed significantly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economists attribute the weaker US performance to several factors. First, to the ongoing uncertainty caused by Trump\u2019s tariff policy, which burdened exporters and importers alike. The punitive tariffs introduced in 2025 on EU cars, solar modules, and steel products triggered counter-reactions that hit American manufacturers hard. Second, the high volatility of the dollar, resulting from alternating monetary threats toward the Federal Reserve, caused international investors to hold back. Added to this were repeated budget crises, the temporary government shutdown since October 2025, and the blockade of investment programs in infrastructure - all brake blocks for long-term capital inflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dream of large tariff revenues has long since evaporated. Only one man refuses to see it: Tariff Emperor Donald Trump<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There was also the climate policy reversal: the withdrawal of funding programs for renewable energy and electromobility caused projects worth tens of billions to collapse within months. The energy transition became a target of ideological rhetoric in Washington - and the market responded immediately. Investors pulled out of US sectors that had become riskier, while Europe, Canada, and parts of Asia benefited from clear frameworks and green growth impulses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The renaissance of coal power under Trump represents a particularly cynical aspect of this environmental destruction. New coal power plants are not only approved but actively promoted - at a time when even conservative economists recognize the economic unprofitability of this technology. The health consequences are catastrophic: each new coal power plant statistically means hundreds of additional premature deaths annually from particulate pollution, increased asthma rates among children, and measurable loss of intelligence from mercury exposure. The external costs of this policy - health damage, environmental destruction, climate impacts - are shifted to society, while profits are privatized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s migration policy proved especially fatal, bringing agriculture in large parts of the country to the brink of collapse. Millions of seasonal workers, whose hands the harvest depended on, suddenly disappeared from the fields. The result was production declines, price increases, and the loss of export shares in a sector that for decades had been the backbone of the rural economy. The shortage of labor penetrated deep into supply chains, food prices, and consumer sentiment - and contributed to the general uncertainty that stifled investment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n