Publications

Speculation: Beneficial to the Market Economy Speculators are currently not very popular. For the globalisation sceptics from Attac speculation is to be blamed for high food prices and famines in…

As QE becomes widely discredited, German policymakers end their uneasy truce with the ECB. Banking woes deepen. Central Banking Central Banks under fire for crossing the line into fiscal policy.…

The Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, has recently announced the intention of the government to invest 13 billion euros to help modernizing Italian manufacturing. Leaving aside reasonable doubts regarding how…

Economic Growth without a Government? Germany 2005, Belgium 2010-2011, USA 2013, Spain 2016: Even in well established democracies it can happen that governments lose a substantial part of their competencies…

The EU Commission’s investigation After a three-year investigation, on the 30th of August 2016 the European Commission has concluded that Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple. The…

Capitalism and Democracy: A recipe for Wealth and Freedom Almost 90% of all Germans believe that democracy is the best political system, despite the slight decrease in approval ratings during…

The absence of structural reforms brings the effectiveness of ECB policy increasingly into question. The Financial Stability Board claims that banking reform is largely complete. Despite a quiet summer, there is plenty of evidence that it isn’t.

Commercial property sector in UK after the Brexit referendum The UK’s choice to leave the EU triggered great instability on the financial markets resulting in currency value shocks and asset…

In May 2016, the Ministry for Universities and Science of the UK Government published the white paper “Success as a knowledge-economy”. The explicit intention of the document is to indicate…

The agreement On the 5th of July, just a few days after the UK expressed its intention to regain trade negotiation autonomy with the Brexit referendum, the EU has found…