"Wild West" is a common way to refer to American-style business decisions in Germany. I vaguely remember a Stern magazine cover from around 2004, depicting a g

"Wild West" is a common way to refer to American-style business decisions in Germany. I vaguely remember a Stern magazine cover from around 2004, depicting a giant cowboy boot with "GM" decorated with red, white and blue coming down on a crowd of people standing in the shape of the Opel logo and titled something like "Der Wild-West-Method." It was clearly not a compliment. (Correction: GM had owned Opel for decades at that point, but was getting more aggressive with how it was run)