Germany

by Edward Hugh Well, as we all well know one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and one data point doesn’t swing an argument one way or another, but the latest retail sales PMI reading for Germany is far from being either uninteresting, or…

by Edward Hugh Not only is the French economy the grateful recipient and beneficiary of sustained German export growth, so too is Poland (I’m sure they’ll be glad to hear that in Warsaw!). According to the FTs Jan Cienski: German recovery…

by Edward Hugh Well, having just posted a lengthy study of the German economy on this blog, I started to lazily browse my way around today’s economic news headlines, and Lo & Behold, what did I find over at the FT, a contrarian voice.…

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona The current generation of policymakers seem to be like Captains of large ocean liners, out there on the high seas, bereft of either compass or adequate charts, trying hard to calm their worried passengers by…

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen was a German baron born in Bodenwerder in the eighteenth century. Made famous by the Hollywood director Terrence Gilliam, the baron first came to public…

Confidence Has Returned To Europe’s Financial Markets, But Lasting Economic Growth May Not Be So Easy To Achieve ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet was in rather optimistic, one might even say jovial, mood at the press conference which…

Marc Chandler is on holiday. This post comes via Win Thin, senior currency strategist at BBH. Newswires are reporting that a big German institution failed the bank stress tests.  The fact that this institution had already been taken…

Topic of the day: German economic policy Tyler Cowen -.Economic View - What Germany Has Learned About Debt - NYTimes.com This Op-Ed in the New York Times echoes some themes I laid out in "Lessons We Can Learn On How Stimulus And…

According to Ralph Atkins writing in the Financial Times last week, “the pace of Germany’s recovery is helping dispel fears of a “double dip” recession across the continent as a result of the crisis over public finances in southern European…

"I have this to say to my fellow Germans in East Germany: The introduction of the social market economy offers you every chance, in fact, even a guarantee, that (the East German states of) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,…