DW - Visualizing Germany's investment gap
This piece would be forshadowing to the massive spending package agreed to by the CDU/SPD/Greens in March 2025. But in early January, in preparation for our election coverage, I tried to visualize how much money would be needed to close Germany’s investment gap.
It’s a lot and I struggled to make cardboards that were large enough and still fit into the studio.
Making to scale cardboards is fun math but annoying to find large enough cardboards.
The problem with a one-off cost of €600 bn is – nobody knows anything that is large enough to compare it to.
We went with comparing it to the entire German federal budget – and then had to break it down to yearly figures. I’m not sure it worked to show how much money it actually is.