Marketing and finance. Unfortunately, lasting, reliable and deep economic growth can't exist without an industrial backbone. I don't know where Germany would be

Marketing and finance. Unfortunately, lasting, reliable and deep economic growth can't exist without an industrial backbone. I don't know where Germany would be without its historically strong focus on exports. We'd be a hollowed out shell like the UK, I guess. It looks like that's the direction we're headed though with Volkswagen's gradual implosion.