Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Saving is the problem, debt is the solution
Talking about debt without taking saving into account is pointless. Read HERE
Heiner Flassbeck
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Migration and the inner-European borders
No sentence has been heard more often in Germany in the past week than the one that something must be done about migration. For many people and for a whole series of parties, it follows […]
Austerity
Heiner Flassbeck: Restless and senseless – the complexity of the modern world is overwhelming politics
What do you do when problems get too much for you? You bury your head in the sand or you take refuge in hectic activity that you sell as the solution to all problems. Our […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Argentina: The libertarian messiah and his prophets
In libertarian circles, where the leader of the German liberals, Christian Lindner, regularly moves, it has become chic to refer to the ‘successes’ of the Argentine president elected a year ago, thus creating the impression […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Europe and the USA: Europe will lose the next round too
It is truly paradoxical: in the USA, where the state has successfully been relied on for decades to keep the economy running, Donald Trump’s billionaire advisors are now calling for a radical reduction in the […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – “Trump is breaking a taboo on monetary policy”: how Europe is making a fool of itself
Donald Trump really is a bad bloke. Not only does he not fit into any familiar mould, the man has ideas that bring tears to the eyes of even seasoned conservatives. These days, the German business […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Hello, wake up! It’s a recession!
German politicians are in denial about the state of the nation. Read HERE Image: Al2/Creative Commons
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Germany, surrounded by evil mercantilists
The German current account surplus of probably 7 per cent of GDP in the current year is an unparalleled scandal. However, it becomes a real political catastrophe when Germany accuses countries that have fairly balanced […]
Climate Crisis
Heiner Flassbeck: Greens down, this is an opportunity for reasonable and globally orientated climate policy
The Greens have crashed brutally in the European elections. In Germany, their share of the vote has almost halved and in France, at 5 per cent, it has even fallen to almost a third of […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Don’t mess with the international financial markets
There are unwritten laws that everyone who has to deal with them knows, but nobody talks about them openly because any attempt to bring them out into the open is punished by the community with […]