Economic Freedom

Another specter is haunting Europe, there is the specter of the “commodification of the human body.” Rather, the ghosts of various camps have crept up the back stairs of Brussels, to prevent any approach to a loosening of “Kommerzialisierungsverboten” human tissues or organs in the bud. At European level will be permanently cemented under the guise of harmonization and the protection supposedly the highest values ​​of specific ideological views. Readmore…

Families are seen in Germany as economic units. This should in addition to its normative base also simply reflect the social reality – at least when children are involved. It also corresponds to the reality that it is the parents in most cases, generating household income, either in part or in each case – in a more traditional division of roles – through a spouse alone. Readmore…

The so-called credit crunch that has taken with defaults in the U.S. market for mortgage loans with low credit ratings to their output, has laid the faulty construction of the state-controlled paper-money system openly maneuvered the systemic piling on more and more credit, the economies of the indebtedness – at the end inevitably be a great inflation. Readmore…

Germany is on the upswing. Despite a series of economic ricochets – high oil and commodity prices, euro appreciation and the braking effect due to the U.S. housing and financial market crisis – the price-adjusted gross domestic product will rise this year by 2.5 percent. Thus, the total economic value in price-adjusted terms since the recovery began in 2004 at nearly 9 percent increase. Readmore…

After the Second World War was the economic freedom in Germany, a new opportunity. The American military government tried to put Germany on the rail this time for economic success, give him a liberal economic order. That was not – at least not to the same extent – on the other occupying powers: the Soviet Union exploited by forces from East Germany, France, opened a large-scale dismantling campaign and the British Labour government introduced in the British zone of the Montan codetermination. Readmore…

One eighth of all federal citizens living in poverty. Without government transfers, it would be even a quarter. This is the central message of the recent Poverty and Wealth Report, the federal government. In the eyes of many, poverty in Germany has now reached a magnitude that threatens the social peace and threatens the long run even the cohesion of society as a whole. Readmore…

A reform of federal regulations is long overdue. The German cooperative federalism is expensive, too expensive. He is an impediment to growth and private employment costs. Political decisions are not transparent, public funds are wasted. But above all, lacks the pseudo-federalism that of proximity. Readmore…

Europe in Crisis?Only the French, then the Dutch and now the Irishman: It is unfortunate to the people when it is questioned. Europe is too complicated that we must leave it to its citizens. Therefore, the constitutional convention, too exclusively constituted of representatives of the political class, particularly the paternalistic construct their own Europe for the uninformed citizens. Readmore…

Liberals – especially if they are “economic liberals” are – are in this country as a cold, materialistic, and antisocial: efficiency, equity and growth is happening to them before justice. They prefer to splurge with the rich than they would have pity on the poor. They are “Pro Business” and “counter-unions” and they choose rather than CDU SPD. Readmore…

“What did you say? – Social market economy – which is a term that I like. If you do not have one of your glass of good Burgundy, then we will drink it! “This is still the unassuming economist Ludwig Erhard on 12 Said in January 1945 to Karl Günther Weiss, an adviser of the Reich Economics Ministry. Readmore…