Economics and politics - comment and analysis

Who is missing the mark on competitiveness within the EMU – or just how fierce European competition for industrial goods really is

Today saw yet another interesting and extremely important statistic that has gone unnoticed by both the media and so-called economic science. As it does every month, Eurostat published the trend in producer prices for the manufacturing sector. The latest available figure is for February, …

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Milei’s Argentina: Real downturn, continuing high inflation and rising unemployment

Heiner Flassbeck and Patrick Kaczmarczyk
Things have gone quiet around Argentina. The mainstream European press, which euphorically celebrated the president with chainsaws during his election, has largely remained silent two years after that election. Isolated reports of success, such as those published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in December 2025, …

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The trade unions (and the SPD) are speechless – they know nothing about macroeconomics

If you are wondering why we are having an idiotic debate about economic policy, read the document linked here from Surplus magazine, which was taken over by a news agency. In it, Germany’s largest trade unions complain about the attacks on the welfare state that are carried out almost daily by the governing parties. …

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