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

April 16, 2026 Mathew D. Rose 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 Mathew D. Rose 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 Mathew D. Rose 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 Mathew D. Rose 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 Mathew D. Rose 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 Mathew D. Rose 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 Mathew D. Rose 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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Heiner Flassbeck, Patrick Kaczmarczyk – Argentina: Devaluation and American interference, but no progress otherwise

November 2, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

No sooner had Javier Milei won the congressional elections with the help of unprecedented American interference in the election campaign than the libertarians regained the upper hand and once again celebrated the Argentine president’s economic […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – France is lost – unless it emancipates itself intellectually

September 12, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

But all those in Germany who are badmouthing their unstable neighbour would do better to keep their mouths shut. Germany is indirectly the main reason why France has become ungovernable. With neighbours like that, who […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Why are entrepreneurs so stupid?

September 3, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

The latest data for the German economy is once again signalling weakness. The ifo index for August has just been published, showing that nothing more than stagnation is to be expected in German industry at […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

March 27, 2026 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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