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Central banks caused own woes
News, Published on 02/08/2025
» US President Donald Trump's fierce attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have attracted global attention, rattled markets and, perhaps most importantly, sparked debate about the wisdom of central-bank independence -- a complex issue with constitutional and economic implications.
Towards a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union?
Business, Published on 05/10/2015
» Since Europe's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was created, no progress towards political unification has been made or even really attempted. Now that Europe's current crisis has convinced many that existing institutional arrangements are unsustainable, this may be about to change. But should it?
Interrogating German ‘leadership’
News, Published on 16/04/2014
» Many in the eurozone’s crisis countries complain that the source of their suffering is a rigid economic-austerity regime — including reductions in wages and pensions, tax increases, and soaring unemployment — imposed on them by Germany. Hostility against Germany has reached a level unseen in Europe since the end of World War II.