Anatole Kaletsky writing in Monday"s edition of the UK Times states that the German GDP data released on Friday were "arguably the most catastrophic economic statistics produced by any official institution in the capitalist world since 1945." Kaletsky goes on to say that the Euro-zone is still experiencing what he calls a perfect storm. According to Kaletsky he downward spiral that the EZ economy is experiencing is due to the combination of Germany"s dependence on exports, reckless lending to Central Europe and the Baltic States and the "one size fits all Euro" that has undermined many of the EZ economies by forcing inappropriate monetary policies at the wrong end of the economic cycles