Tag: Volker Wieland
Prolonged Inflation: Real Danger or Bogeyman?
inflation How far will consumer prices rise? Economists argue about the right approach for forecasts and defensive measures. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The development of inflation poses a puzzle for economists…
Prolonged Inflation: Real Danger or Bogeyman?
inflation How far will consumer prices rise? Economists argue about the right approach for forecasts and defensive measures. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The development of inflation poses a puzzle for economists…
World economy between Scylla and Charybdis
The author Volker Wieland is Executive Director of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability at Goethe University Frankfurt. Like the two mythical ancient monsters on the Strait of Messina,…
What will become of the euro?
The euro has lost a good 15 percent of its purchasing power since January 2021. By New Year’s Eve 2023, the loss is likely to increase to more than a…
Lots of money, little energy
The federal government wants to overcome the gas and electricity crisis with a defense shield of 200 billion euros. State transfers are intended to ensure the growth and competitiveness of…
Lots of money, little energy
The federal government wants to overcome the gas and electricity crisis with a defense shield of 200 billion euros. State transfers are intended to ensure the growth and competitiveness of…
Economist Feld and employers criticize calls for tax increases
Berlin The five economic wise men have triggered a heated debate with their call for tax increases for higher earners. The former chairman of the council of experts, Lars Feld,…
Economists have a woman at the top for the first time
Berlin The lot apparently decided in wise foresight. For a long time, the economic experts could not agree on a chair after their previous boss Lars Feld left in spring…
Accelerator of inflation
Inflation, war, energy crisis and recession – there are striking parallels between the current global situation and the stagflation of the 1970s. At that time there were geopolitical conflicts such…
Joe Biden achieves the first real success
it is no longer epochal, but it is so significant that US President Joe Biden calls it “historic”: his draft law for climate protection and social affairs. For months, Biden’s…
The ECB’s new purchase program is toxic for the currency union
Capital market interest rates, including interest rates on government bonds, have risen sharply since the end of last year. Investors want to be compensated for the expected inflation and are…
Advisory Council: Federal government blocks economy
Berlin If you like, the economists are somehow complete. Again and again the first names of the council members Veronika Grimm and Monika Schnitzer are switched. As a result, there…
“Put your households in order”
Storm over St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome Italian government bonds are having a hard time at the moment – despite far-reaching structural reforms. (Photo: dpa) In view of rising interest…
Inflation: early warning system I index at record high
Berlin The record inflation rates may not be over yet. The I-Index, an early warning system for consumer price developments based on media articles, has reached an all-time high. In…
Economist Martin Werding is to become a member
Economist Martin Werding Mental father of the “share pension”. (Photo: imago images/Jürgen Heinrich) Berlin When Olaf Scholz, who was still an SPD candidate for chancellor at the time, verbally beat…
Macron has to put down his kid gloves – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
In a leading European country with a tradition of enlightenment and bourgeois revolutions, 30 percent is extremely high for the right. On the other hand, it’s not 50 percent either.…
Economy: Volker Wieland leaves the Council of Experts
Berlin It didn’t look like saying goodbye. At the end of March, Volker Wieland is still in a good mood. At the end of the presentation of the new economic…
Economy: Volker Wieland leaves the Council of Experts
Volker Wieland The economist is leaving the advisory body of the federal government. (Photo: IMAGO/Future Image) Dusseldorf At the end of April, the economist Volker Wieland left the Council of…
“It could be a lot worse”
Berlin Volker Wieland sees dark times ahead for the German economy. “The prospects have deteriorated drastically,” he told Handelsblatt. Wieland is a member of the Advisory Council for the assessment…
First calls for Russia to be excluded from the Swift payment system
Moscow Russian banks would have to switch to other systems if they are decoupled from Swift. (Photo: Bloomberg) Brussels, Frankfurt, Berlin, Stockholm The West’s punitive measures are said to hit…