David, thanks for the non-snarky response. While you seem to mean well, you make many dogmatic hyperbole claims along with angry rhetoric, then try to back them up with what you call "analysis" based on incomplete stats, which frankly is quite misleading. Accusations like like "“Germany massively depress wages and boost employment at home”", "but in terms of what business has to pay their employees, it's far less in Germany than the USA, German wages are far lower than American wages" (pl look at profit margin, SG&A, labor and pension expense between blue-chip US and German listed companies before making that claim), are without any reasonable evidence. Let's just say you should provide a bit more data to support accusations of such scale, not just simple GDP numbers.

Your "analysis" is inconsistent with so many fundamental economic principals, it would take way too long to discuss and this is not the appropriate forum. Let's just say 1) GDP is not National Income or consumption as you try to link them. GDP is a imperfect measurement of domestic economic activities, and does not fully capture many things including offshore assets (German car plants in China), service related activities such Financial Transactions. 2) we need to work on basic macro economic and mathematic principals if you cant agree that 5-7% savings rate vs. 10%, or 3% GDP growth vs. 7% is significant. 3) use multiple data and sources, to make serious allegations against Germany above, it's quite irresponsible without looking at household debt, credit card debt, current account, and others. BTW, I didn't attribute "Germany's trade surplus to German thrift", I said "it has something to do it", as part of many factors mentioned above.

To have a serious macro-economic discussion, we have to stop analyze and talk like Peter Navarro, I'd recommend you read more Ray Dalio, Stan Drunkenmiller, and Geroge Soros.