Banking & Finance
Cultural Change At the German Bundesbank
Some ten weeks after the German Bundestag elections, a traffic light coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats took office on December 8,…
Germany´s Wirecard scandal – the largest accounting fraud in the country´s postwar history
While all of Europe is still in the grip of the worst pandemic in a century, Germany’s political and financial establishments are also haunted…
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
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 Social Democrats, Vice Chancellor and economy and climate minister Robert Habeck of the Greens, and finance minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democratic Party, have been facing one mess after another.…