Uh-oh: Economist.com | Germany's jobless

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Some economic numbers are as resonant as they are significant. One such figure was announced on Wednesday February 2nd by Germany's Federal Labour Agency. More than 5m Germans were unemployed last month, the agency revealed, the most since 1932, when the economic devastation of the Great Depression brought the Weimar Republic to an unhappy end.

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Gotta love that British knack for understatement.

Doug had a vision:

WANTED: Uneducated whacko with funny mustache and hypnotic stare. Must be a commanding public speaker and very patriotic.

POSITION: Head of one of the most civilized and technically advanced countries in Europe.

Candidate with good motivational skills could easily progress to command of the whole EU within five years.

...The Brits may have understatement, but we Yanks have black humor down cold.