Now even the Federal Minister of Economics knows: Germany is facing a recession. But the recession, he says immediately, will not be so bad and in 2024 things will pick up again. That’s honest policy, we don’t sugarcoat anything, we look the harsh reality firmly in the eye, …
I already described in my last piece that it is almost impossible nowadays to bring an indisputable fact to the attention of the people in such a way that even politicians feel compelled to question all too simple views and also to go against the economic prejudices of the majority for once. …
Eastern Europe has become the talk of the political town. While it was hoped in the West that the region would become a new power house in Europe after the Great Reunification in the early 1990s, from which the West would then also benefit, …
Almost everyone now knows that the first German attempt to reform its pay-as-you-go pension system by a funded arm, the famous Riester pension, was a total flop. Nevertheless, even before the government was formed, some parties were again discussing the possibility of strengthening the funded part. …
