Banking & Finance
Bundestag Bombshell
For Merz, after half a year struggling with a caretaker government and disappointing snap election results for the democratic center parties, especially the Social…
Germany in Crisis
On the day Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term, the main German stock index DAX briefly rose over 21,000 for the first…
Economy & Globalization
Deutschland Debacle
Germany’s traffic-light coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and Liberals is unable to escape crisis mode. The coalition’s top leaders, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the…
Germany on the Firing Line
Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump started a global trade war, attacking high German current account surpluses and threatening penalty tariffs on German cars,…
Politics
Germany in Crisis
On the day Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term, the main German stock index DAX briefly rose over 21,000 for the first time ever, suggesting that a large share of foreign investors—some estimates guessed around 70 percent—supported Trump’s “Make America Great Again” triumphant return as the fortyseventh U.S. president. This contrasts with the…