One thing about Cory's books is that there is always some extremely cringe party section with some rather forced romance part screaming "how do you do fellow kids?" even to me, a middle aged guy himself.
The above is also cringe, even though the argument has some (limited) merit. Look, Cory... just admit some rich friend of yours talked you into signing up for this on the last silicon vally party you attended. We all make mistakes like that some time 🤷♂️
While technically correct, it is more of a stagnation isn't it? And if fact most of the economy is growing fine, it is just some energy intensive and highly export oriented industries that do not. Clearly not the best situation to be in, but structural adjustments take time and the previous Merkel government wasted a lot of time doing nothing, so no big surprise.