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originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: lordcomac
I would think it is fairly self-explanatory. The German state pension scheme was running at an alarming deficit, until suddenly a lot of people are no longer claiming it. For the scheme to run from a bad deficit to a healthy profit a massive number of people would have been required to stop drawing on it. There is only one way this can happen.