Mr. Lindner, the German mechanical and plant engineering, since taking office in October last year, mostly come up with rich double-digit growth in orders. What is the recipe for success in your industry?Thomas Lindner:Is our success: quality, reliability and punctuality. Readmore…
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European Central Bank – which has been your independence?
January 28th, 2012
“The European Central Bank will be as independent as the German Bundesbank. Their independence will be even greater, because it is enshrined in an international legally binding treaty, and not – like that of the Bundesbank -. Can be changed by a simple legislative majority “Such praises were sung at the time of the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty. Readmore…
Europe's false friends
January 24th, 2012
Nothing is without alternative. There are in the current situation and with a short-to medium-term time horizon to deal various ways, with the European sovereign debt crisis. One of those ways requires to accept the Greek default and let the creditors of Greece make the appropriate depreciation. Jeopardize systemically important banks, then a recapitalization of the banks is to be made. Readmore…
Today is Of the “United States of Europe” spoken by a European economic government and by a European finance ministers. A European joint liability, a financial and a transfer union are to become everyday vocabulary, is being given to their specific content any more. They seem now to be “no alternative”. Readmore…
Understanding financial markets regulatory policy?
December 24th, 2011
This short article comes from holiday and is therefore not thoroughly researched. It provides more questions to the regulatory “community”, as he held the ready-made answers. Today, on 16 August 2011, I look at the “ZDF heute journal” and find out there that “the markets” had the meeting Sarkozy-Merkel wished for a clear commitment to “Euro Bonds”! I have not wished. Readmore…
Guest Post
€ Speaking Summit – Remarks on the decay of a media crisis
December 12th, 2011
IThe Heads of State and Government of the Euro zone have taken a bit of everything, and the derived medicine, certainly not merely a placebo, is apparently indeed become a valuable sedative. As such, they also correspond to the emergency. Readmore…
The misery of the “Corporate Social Responsibility”
December 7th, 2011
Economic and business ethics are enjoying increasing popularity for quite some time. Especially the corporate ethics has measured the relative growth of publications on an exponential growth. One can speculate about the reasons for the increasing popularity of the topic only. For many authors, it certainly provides a welcome opportunity to escape the growing formalization of economics. Readmore…
The credit card of the neighbors
December 6th, 2011
With 109 billion euros, Greece is powered through the last Thursday agreed with a second rescue package new loans and Greek bonds are redeemed or exchanged for new bonds. Thus, at least the current credit crunch in Greece can be overcome.That's nice. More importantly, however, whether the debt problem will be self-controlled. Readmore…
If the euro-zone countries finance repurchases of Greek government bonds?
November 27th, 2011
The Institute of International Finance of the international banking association suggests that the euro-zone countries should Greece extend credit, so it can buy its bonds back to the current reduced rates. If you believe media reports, then the Federal Ministry of Finance “sympathies” for this proposal. Readmore…
The ethics of nuclear phase
November 21st, 2011
Frank Knight, the pioneer of information economics is that today the distinction between uncertainty. For the determination of mean and variance, there are two sources: theoretical correlations or systematic observation over as large a number of past periods. Is neither the one nor the other have, they know the expectation and variance are not. Readmore…