Economics and politics - comment and analysis

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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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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