11/21/2001 English German

Home to Germany?

Michael While companies in Silicon Valley are groaning under the crisis, there seems to be an even harsher shortage of computer experts in Germany. How else could one explain that the "Stuttgart Region" is calling back the computer superheroes who had taken off to the USA and are now enticing them with all sorts of amusing gimmicks like a "free city tour"?

Figure [1]: No Place Like Home -- The Stuttgart region tries to bring back the runaway heroes from Silicon Valley.

The website www.move-back.de even announced that on September 5, 2001, planes with huge advertising banners would fly over the metropolitan areas of New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, urging people to return to their homeland. We didn't see anything. It was probably a harebrained idea from Swabia that had been sitting in a drawer for three years. Well, if there had been at least 100 Deutschmarks as a welcome gift, like back in the day for East Germans, I might have considered it ... but joking aside: folks, I believe that hard times are ahead for you guys in Germany. I dare to predict that the German stock market will be hit in the same way, with a delay of about 6-12 months.


 
 
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