Simon Wren-Lewis: Should we worry about temporarily raising government debt?

The Franco-German plan for a €500 billion “recovery fund” has been welcomed with superlatives such as “Hamiltonian,” “stunning,” “a game changer” and the somewhat slightly less hagiographic “surprisingly ambitious.” In actual fact, it is just […]

Exports (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), October 2024 124.6 billion euros -2.8% on the previous month -2.8% on the same month a year earlier Imports (calendar and seasonally adjusted imports of goods), October […]

As voters are flocking to the far-right party Alternative for Germany, the other political parties are realising that their neo-liberal policies have alienated voters. In Berlin hundreds of thousands of citizens have demanded this measure. […]