In its attempts to rescue the euro, Germany is often seen as the odd country out. It blocks constructive solutions with its resistance to either using ECB funds or creating sufficiently large rescue ...

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With the EU agreeing to a second Greek bail out, the spotlight is on the delicate balance between demands for fiscal rectitude and the argument that growth needs flexibility. Berlin thinks the only ...

At each stage of the euro crisis during the past two years, Chancellor Angela Merkel has seemed to do the absolute minimum needed to keep the single currency together – but no more. This minimalist ...

Regarding Joseph Stiglitz’s May 16 Thursday Opinion column, “Time’s up for neoliberals”: Mr. Stiglitz called for a progressive capitalism to counter the neoliberal doctrines fueling an antidemocratic ...

Economic power was used as a tool to further an ideology of hatred and destruction. This highlights the moral blind spots that existed within Ordoliberalism under the Nazi rule. When we think of the ...

Germany has weathered the financial crisis much better than most of its neighbors. Regarded as the sick man of Europe as recently as 1999, today the nation boasts the continent’s strongest economy, ...

The most significant belief in ordoliberalism is that economies can absorb economic shocks as long as prices and wages adjust PERHAPS IT is time to learn to love the Germans a little more, or at least ...