Ludwig Erhard took an utterly destroyed, destitute, and demoralized Germany from ruin to riches in stunning fashion.

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Ludwig Erhard established sound money, abolished price controls, flattened the tax code and the economy snapped back almost immediately.

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The clueless Chancellor should take a cue from the now-forgotten Ludwig Erhard, architect of the post-WWII German economic miracle.

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This was the fate of Ludwig Erhard in 1966, when an earlier coalition of CDU, CSU and FDP abandoned him.

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Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard did so after World War II, triggering the so-called German Economic Miracle, which didn't sputter out until the mid-1970s.

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Merkel is not the only German who seems to have forgotten the inspiring example of Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's first postwar economics minister.

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Oh, how one yearns for the resurrection of Ludwig Erhard, the post-World War II economics minister whose tax-cutting policies made possible Germany's "miraculous" growth during the 1950s and 1960s.

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