Tag: Bert Ruerup
Is China’s star falling?
China’s President Xi on a screen in Beijing. His re-election as head of state is imminent. (Photo: AP) When delegates to the 20th Party Congress confirm Xi Jinping as general…
The Germans in the pension trap – Morning Briefing
It’s the weekend, late summer and without thinking about the gas bill, and I don’t want to spoil your mood with the latest shelling situation in the Ukraine, including Crimea.…
Germany practices the heating check
Corridors, halls, foyers and technical rooms in public facilities and office buildings should not be heated, this time more home office should not protect against Corona, but against the heating…
Michael Hüther & Bert Rürup: Macropolitics need a turning point
The term turning point is becoming the code word of our epoch because it marks a historical upheaval. Previously dominant conditions are losing their formative power, and new structures are…
Michael Hüther & Bert Rürup: Macropolitics need a turning point
The term turning point is becoming the code word of our epoch because it marks a historical upheaval. Previously dominant conditions are losing their formative power, and new structures are…
Lean times: lower growth for Germany
economic growth The Handelsblatt Research Institute is correcting its forecasts. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The German economy initially got off to a good start in 2022. Supply chain problems appeared to…
How climate change affects drinking water supply
Berlin It is an ambitious goal: by 2045, the building stock in Germany should be climate-neutral. That’s what the federal government decided. The Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI), together with the…
The western model threatens to erode
Are we already living in the “twilight of democracy,” as Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum fears in her new book The Lure of Authoritarianism? In any case, the current Bertelsmann…
Chief economist on the debate about an energy boycott
All federal ministers swear when they take office that “I will devote my energy to the well-being of the German people, increase their benefit, protect them from harm, uphold and…
Chemical industry praises the government – and criticizes economists
Wacker-Chemie boss Christian Hartel at the Handelsblatt chemistry conference The chemical manager warns of the consequences of a gas delivery stop. (Photo: WILLI NOTHERS) Dusseldorf In the debate about a…
The Curse of the New Bipolar World Order – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
From China’s point of view, the West has twice signaled blatant weakness. Once with Brexit, on the other hand with the election of the political jumping-in field Donald Trump as…
Olaf Scholz defeats the “Scholzomat” – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
if you want to call Olaf Scholz’s grin “smurfy”, as CSU comics connoisseur Markus Söder did a year ago, then “Schlumpfhausen” was a long way away from “Anne Will” yesterday.…
He who has the raw materials has power – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Wars usually also have to do with raw materials, and those who dream of a new world order will find their weapon to change the situation here. In the case…
The consequences of the Ukraine crisis for stock exchanges and the German economy
Dusseldorf The conflict between Russia and Ukraine reached a new level of escalation on Monday evening. In an almost hour-long speech on Russian state television, President Vladimir Putin recognized the…
Germany can only flourish if the eurozone is doing well economically
The foreign trade balance closed in 2021 with a surplus of 173.3 billion euros – almost five percent in relation to overall economic output. The most important target countries for…
What Trump’s return would mean
It’s November 5th, 2024 and the world has changed, once again. Donald Trump won the presidential election. Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here, first published in 1935, is again…
Comment: Ex-Wirtschaftsweiser in the Ministry of Finance: Lindner gets Lars Feld
Ready for new tasks The former chairman of the Economic Wise Men, Lars Feld, goes to Christian Lindner in the Federal Ministry of Finance. (Photo: imago images/Jens Schicke) Sometimes it…
Comment: Ex-Wirtschaftsweiser in the Ministry of Finance: Lindner gets Lars Feld
Ready for new tasks The former chairman of the Economic Wise Men, Lars Feld, goes to Christian Lindner in the Federal Ministry of Finance. (Photo: imago images/Jens Schicke) Sometimes it…
The generosity of short-time work has side effects
One could get the impression that the left hand of the federal government does not know what the right hand is doing. Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) describes the shortage…
Bert Rürup: Energy transition is problematic in terms of distribution policy
Anyone who believed or at least hoped that the rising prices were not least caused by the temporary reduction in value added tax and later increasing it again is mistaken.…