Hardly anything has been written or said more in recent weeks than about the paper by Trump’s new economic adviser, Stephan Miran, which forms the basis for the so-called Mar-a-Lago Accord, a new attempt to find multilateral solutions to the global monetary system. …
One of Donald Trump’s most important trade advisors, Peter Navarro, defended the American president’s trade policies some time ago in an article in the Financial Times, making at least one very strong point that went unnoticed in continental Europe. …
Isn’t it amazing that almost at the same time as the future president of the United States is sending blatant threats across the Atlantic regarding Europe’s current account surpluses, the European Commission and the most important national governments in Europe have hardly any other topic on their agenda than improving international competitiveness. …
If the German Federal Statistical Office hadn’t officially announced it last Friday, you wouldn’t have believed it. In Germany, the part of collective wage agreements that leads to a permanent collective wage increase actually amounted to only 2.4 per cent last year. …
