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An answer from the German Ministry of Finance to the letter of five economists to Angela Merkel? Not quite!

By Heiner Flassbeck

30. July 2015 I Economic Policy, Europe

Ludger Schuknecht, the head of the Department for “Fiscal and Economic Policy Questions” at the German Federal Department of Finance, responded in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) to the open letter that Heiner Flassbeck, Dani Rodrik, Thomas Piketty, Jeffrey Sachs and Simon Wren-Lewis wrote to Angela Merkel on July 7. …

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The Sleepwalkers

By Heiner Flassbeck

3. July 2015 I Economic Policy, Europe

On the 25th of January 2015, a little more than five months ago, the Greek electorate used its right in a free election to make a choice about the destiny of their country. The result of the election conveyed that a majority of the Greeks voted against austerity and SYRIZA came to power. …

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The Weakness of the Euro, Currency Wars and Migration

By Heiner Flassbeck

30. January 2015 I Economic Policy, Europe, General Politics

This is the (updated) translation of an article that was issued January 19, 2015 on flassbeck-economics. We intend to publish one article in English every week to allow more readers to follow closely our analysis of global and European events.
If it would not be true, …

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