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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Searching for the scapegoat – wages in the ECB’s focus

March 15, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

If the German Federal Statistical Office hadn’t officially announced it last Friday, you wouldn’t have believed it. In Germany, the part of collective wage agreements that leads to a permanent collective wage increase actually amounted […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – Germany: Downturn in the economy and a simultaneous downturn in economic analysis

February 15, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not an economic expert. Nobody expects him to be. However, the head of government of the world’s fourth largest industrialised nation should have advisors to protect him from disqualifying himself […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The ECB’s dogmatism reaches new dimensions

November 16, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The price surge triggered by the pandemic in 2021 and the war in Ukraine in 2022, which primarily caused producer prices to soar, was considerably stronger (Figure 2), but the processes are very similar to […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Eastern Europe facing a new crisis

October 26, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The challenges facing Eastern EU members’ economies Read HERE

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – Germany: The recession deepens

September 21, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The downward slide of the German economy continues. Production and incoming orders in German industry are still on course for recession in the first month of the third quarter. The latest sentiment indicators, such as […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Fighting recession is hopeless without an analysis of its causes

August 17, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The months of talk about a “winter recession”, a “technical” or “mild” recession in Germany, which will be overcome in the course of the year, has come to an end. The indicators are now too […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Still on a knife’s edge? German federal government fails to recognise the true economic situation

July 20, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Anyone in the civilised world who wants to drive a car must prove that he can correctly assess the direction of movement and speed of his vehicle, master the aids of stabilisation and gain a […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: The inflation that was no inflation is over

May 18, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

New data from the German Federal Statistical Office make it clear to even the last doubter: the short phase of high price increases is a thing of the past and the complete normalisation of the […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – “Inflation”, the ECB and logic

March 9, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Nothing has a harder time in these days than logic. In a world where almost everyone believes that it is all about the “right” values, the correct speech and what is understood by morality, logic […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The ECB’s interest rate hike is a grandiose mistake

February 5, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The ECB’s decision on 2 February to raise interest rates again by 0.5 percentage points and to announce an equally large increase for March will go down in history as a grand misjudgement. Although it […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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