BERLIN — It took a preacher of fiscal rectitude to break Germany’s near-religious belief in the wrongfulness of debt. Just days ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 election, Friedrich Merz, the eventual conservative winner and chancellor-in-waiting, was still championing the old gospel of financial self-denial, warning that borrowing big to solve his country’s massive problems would further …
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