germans flock to gold bars vending machine, page-7

http://www.thedailybell.com/index.asp?fl=1

today's Bell has a good writeup:

"It is no coincidence that Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has had to go on record as opposing the leveling nostrums of both Britain and America when it comes to applying "stimulus" to foundering economies. While the German economy is socialist in many ways, the bedrock memories of people still alive and in positions of power in Germany simply have not allowed that country to adopt as aggressive a stimulus orientation."