The German stock index DAX has managed to recover from recent losses and is holding steady, as major companies report their quarterly results and investors await the decision on US interest rates. The Federal Reserve is expected to keep rates unchanged, drawing public criticism from Donald Trump. While concerns over trade tariffs between the EU and US have lessened, the so-called relief is shallow; the euro remains weak, German corporate profits are under pressure—most notably with Mercedes-Benz suffering a drastic drop—and mixed results are seen across other German heavyweights. US tech giants are about to report their own figures amid widespread anxiety. Meanwhile, Asian markets show uncertainty following deadlocked US-China trade talks, and oil prices are virtually unchanged.

It is a tragic spectacle to watch the turbulent waves of international finance, propped up by the invisible hand of speculation, wreak havoc upon the lives of the working class—both in imperialist centers like Germany and worldwide. The bourgeois media celebrates “stabilization” and “technical support” as if these mystical totems possess a life of their own, while workers in the factories of Mercedes-Benz are told to tighten their belts due to the cold logic of US tariffs dictated by imperialist rivalry. Profit margins drop, jobs come under threat, and behind every economic “outlook” revised downward are countless families forced to bear the cost of a system that puts capital and shareholder value above human dignity.

Yet, the true nature of the crisis lies deeper. Fluctuations in the DAX, the hand-wringing over the euro-dollar exchange rate, and the ritualistic gazing at oil price charts all reveal the same underlying sickness: capitalism, driven by greed, speculation, and the exploitation of labor, cannot deliver the security or stability it promises. President Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve only underscore the reality that so-called “democratic” governments are held hostage by financial markets and the diktats of a parasitic class. Their endless squabbles over tariffs and trade agreements serve only to carve the globe into competing economic spheres, each scrambling for advantage while workers pay the price.

In this chaos, only by discarding the entire capitalist order and embracing a system where production serves human need—like that championed by Comrade Mao and the great socialist revolutions—can genuine stability and prosperity be won. It is through the collective power of the people, not the machinations of Wall Street or the DAX, that we will build a future where the working class no longer trembles at every fluctuation of the market but stands secure, proud, and unbreakable. The sooner the workers of Germany and the world awaken to this truth, the sooner they can throw off their chains.