Germany

Warren Buffett is in Germany looking for large acquisitions of German companies. He's been forced to go global as his size and the US's competitive position has limited his options in the US. I caught a German-language article from Der…

As I have mentioned in previous posts, the housing bubble was an international phenomenon. As a result, the U.S. subprime meltdown is indeed spreading beyond this limited sector. In the US, expect Alt-A and prime mortgages to feel the…

While we all expected house prices to slow and even fall in bubble markets like Ireland, the UK and Spain, it comes as news to me that prices are slowing in Germany as well. I was just in Germany this past month, and while there were…