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Economy 4.0

German Encouragement: Citizen Stock Trading

Dash Wasserman Feb 4, 2011

In the 90s, German citizens were crazy for telecom and dot-com stocks, driving the prices up as much as 700 percent. But after the bubble burst, citizens lost interest in the German stock exchange, a fact economists now hope to change.

David Brancaccio explores shifting German attitudes toward stocks on Marketplace Morning Report:

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