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Heiner Flassbeck: Interest rate hike during a recession – the Europeans are mad

June 29, 2026 MDRose 0

This week will probably prove it once and for all: the Europeans are mad. The Americans, on the other hand, although generally considered mad, are finally leaving the Europeans far behind when it comes to […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – Romania, a new crisis, an old realisation: Eastern Europe is caught in the appreciation trap

May 30, 2026 MDRose 0

Labour costs are rising too sharply in Eastern Europe Read Article HERE

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Heiner Flassbeck: What is an international imbalance? 

May 15, 2026 MDRose 0

In the Financial Times, Martin Wolf noted a few days ago that imbalances in international trade are back on the political agenda. Although Wolf reaches entirely reasonable conclusions regarding mercantilism, he nevertheless states that it is nonsense […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Hungary after 16 years of Orbán: Still no escape from the currency appreciation trap

April 16, 2026 MDRose 0

It is quite astonishing: Viktor Orbán’s heyday in Hungary began when, following the end of massive currency speculation (carry trades) that had massively overvalued the Hungarian forint, the forint plummeted and left many homeowners who […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Is Germany losing competitiveness in the EMU?

February 22, 2026 MDRose 0

Anyone who says that Germany has a problem with competitiveness, that labour costs are too high or that we need to tighten our belts is contradicting the facts. Germany is still living below its means […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Mercosur, Ludwig Erhard and German mercantilism

January 24, 2026 MDRose 0

Mercosur is on everyone’s lips. Wouldn’t the free trade agreement with several countries in Latin America be a golden opportunity to get one over on the USA? Couldn’t a new source of prosperity be tapped […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Germany and Europe: Headless in the mid-20s

January 2, 2026 MDRose 0

The first quarter of this century has come to an end, and unfortunately we must conclude that humanity has not become any wiser over the past hundred years. The mid-1920s have become a symbol of […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – ‘German labour costs are too high’: Friedrich Merz’s economic declaration of war on Europe – and on himself

December 22, 2025 MDRose 0

It was only a matter of time. First, the economic amateurs pounced on the welfare state, now they are attacking the core substance of the economy. As in the 1970s and 1990s, ‘German economic experts’ […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: China is big, Germany is small

December 14, 2025 MDRose 0

Anyone dealing with absolute figures must always be careful. Reports are currently coming in from all over the country that China’s trade surplus has reached a record high of 1,000 billion dollars. Many media outlets […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: China, the big threat?

November 19, 2025 MDRose 0

China and its economic successes are on everyone’s lips. Under the previous government (and under pressure from the US), Germany already designated China a ‘systemic rival,’ whatever that may mean in concrete terms. In any […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

May 8, 2026 0

Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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