They discuss the trends,

You need to be more specific. Can you copy and paste one?

What predictions? They’re making predictions about the next year… in 1999, and not many specific ones either, just saying prospects are bleak. I don’t see any predictions about the 2020s.

In fact, German GDP has nearly tripled since this was written. The only months of no growth were during 2008 and COVID and Germany outperformed all its neighbors. They didn’t predict any of the conditions for either of those crises.

This article is from 1999. So just 24 years too late.

“Should’ve” and “should of” are pronounced the same, what are you talking about? There’s no way you can mix them up in speech. Are you even a native English speaker?