Now, this is an interesting graph which tells us something about the public awareness of the problems in the sphere of money. Every now and then these two topics had dominated the mainstream media: the price of mineral oil and the costs for health care. Of course, for an economy that so much depends on mineral oil as ours and on healthy workers these are certainly important items. Some may still remember the oil price shock at the end of the 70ies. Since that time every rise in oil prices was sensitively registered by the public opinion with great excitement. And the cost explosion for health care, which was noticed at the beginning of the nineties, has become a never ending story in the media. Of course, a ten-fold increase of health costs is a tough nut to crack.
Compared to the excitement caused by these costs for the economy it is surprising, that the third development of costs, the capital costs or interest payments had hardly ever become a topic in media. They never aroused public excitement, although one could imagine, that the economy creaks under a burden, that is more than twice as high as costs for health care and oil price together!
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