Economics and politics - comment and analysis

Globalisation à la carte?

(first published in German in “Freitag”, 20 January)
Globalisation has become the talk of the town. People no longer want to be so dependent, many say. In future, one cannot simply rely on the efficiency gains of globalisation, say others. It must be possible to produce all important products at home, …

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Fixed investment is the critical point – and the analyses on this are more than meagre

Now even the Federal Minister of Economics knows: Germany is facing a recession. But the recession, he says immediately, will not be so bad and in 2024 things will pick up again. That’s honest policy, we don’t sugarcoat anything, we look the harsh reality firmly in the eye, …

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