Germany

A lot of other cool graphics from Spiegel, including debt and deficits throughout Europe.. See sources at the bottom for more (like when periphery bonds come due, Italy included).

A first look at why Ireland has gone to the heights and crashed spectacularly, and what options it has that other nations in crisis have used successfully.

UPDATE: 12 Nov 2010 - More press accounts are confirming that, indeed, a bailout is in the offing. The British have signed up for it as well despite insisting that this is a euro zone problem. But they needed to get on side to show…

Here's a re-post of mine from New Deal 2.0 on the Germans and their political rhetoric on QE. Okay, I did a few years of German language study, so I know that the real word for hypocrite is “Heuchler”. But when I read the latest guff from…

We identified and continue to track key forces that offer insight into the euro dollar exchange rate. To monitor the near-term trend, we have used the 5 and 20 day moving averages. They have done a fairly good job of capturing this year's…

The Germans are planning to put forward a plan to change  guidelines to the stability and growth pact (SGP) to give it more teeth. The sense in Berlin is that the SGP, which limits budget deficits to 3% and debt-to-GDP to 60%, has been…

Long term (over 20-30 years) demographics will favor the U.S. over Germany and China in international trade.

This time last year, The Economist’s survey of global house prices was a sea of negative numbers. That was then. Of the 20 markets tracked in our latest survey, only four still posted year-on-year declines and only Ireland’s property…

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by Claus Vistesen (with apologies to Frederick Goodall) The financial and economic discourse is a funny beast really; it can, if harnessed properly, shed light on future investor and market performance, it can give a diversified and…