DeStatis: German Manufacturing in January 2023: new orders fell by 10.9% year on year

“We’ve confused rent with profits, value extraction with value creation.” Read here

‘We have now entered a new phase of Western-led global savagery — prefigured by the genocide in Gaza — in which all pretences have been dropped and only the logic of raw, unrestrained violence remains.’ […]

French and German banks have more than $400 billion at stake and would lose big if the country left the currency union. Read here