Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Germany: Speechlessness is not politics – reflections at the turn of the year
A good review of the current situation in Germany. Short and to the point. Read HERE
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Climate Crisis
Heiner Flassbeck – The great illusion: COP 28 and the end of fossil fuels
After all, eight years after the Paris Agreement, most of the world has now realised that there is a problem with fossil fuel producers. The conference known as COP 28, which has just ended in […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Inflation success in the USA disproves the ECB
Sometimes it is incredibly difficult to draw clear conclusions from simple facts because people have become so firmly entrenched in a particular world view that anything other than this picture does not exist. If, for […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The ECB’s dogmatism reaches new dimensions
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 […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Interest rates down!
Now, at the latest, it is clear that the ECB and all those inflation alarmists were fundamentally wrong who pretended that since last summer there had been a dangerous inflation process that could only be […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Eastern Europe facing a new crisis
The challenges facing Eastern EU members’ economies Read HERE
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: The political elephant in the china store – and why you can’t or won’t see it
In English there is the beautiful expression of the “elephant in the room”, which is very big, but seemingly not discovered by anyone. People talk about all kinds of things that are in the room, […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: Flexible wages or flexible profits – how does a market economy work?
When a high-ranking European policymaker like Christine Lagarde gives a keynote speech on “policymaking in an age of shifts and breaks” at a meeting of the world’s most important central bankers, one should listen carefully. […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – Germany: The recession deepens
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 […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: The German and Global Malaise – from the Perspective of the Neoclassical Theory
Suddenly they are all complaining. With an enormous delay, even the professional optimists in the German media have realised that something is fundamentally wrong. Germany is once again the sick man of Europe, the British […]