Germany’s Budget Surplus: Is Too Much of a Good Thing a Bad Thing?
Many who are familiar with Germany and German culture know that saving money and only spending money that one has is a very German trait. Only 36 percent of Germans …
U.S. Trade Policy: Clearing the Brush – or Pulling up Stakes?
The Trump administration has been in office for a little over a year now, and it is becoming clear there are two ways to view its approach to trade policy. …
Looking at Transatlantic Relations from the American-German Situation Room
I spent four weeks from late August to late September 2017 in the American-German Situation Room (AGSR), working to find out what direction the Trump administration’s trade policies would take …
A Trumpian Turn in EU Trade Politics and the Silence of Germany
On December 5, 2017, the European institutions—Commission, Council, and Parliament—reached political agreement on reforming the EU’s trade defense instruments. This “modernization” of anti-dumping legislation is, in fact, an attempt to …
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The G20 Trifecta
Germany – Argentina – Japan: Not a list of three regional soccer powerhouses, but rather the troika of past, current, and future presidency countries of the G20. On December 1, …
German Economic Leadership in Europe: More Uncertain and More Needed
The instability produced by the failure to form a so-called “Jamaica” coalition in Germany increases the importance of moving from reliance on de facto German leadership of the Eurozone to …
U.S. trade policy in the age of Trump: What role for Europe in the “New Nationalism”?
One year ago, the American public elected in Donald Trump a president who painted international trade not as a generator of U.S. prosperity and a multiplier of its national interest, …
Democratizing the Economic and Monetary Union
With the Eurozone emerging from years of economic crisis, the reform of the currency union is now in the limelight. After the “election year” in Europe, the reform momentum has …
America’s Four Economic Families
The United States may have two major political parties, but it is becoming clear that it has four economic families: Small government + free trade = Mainstream Republicans Small government …
Voting for the Eurozone on September 24th
The German elections are just over two weeks away on September 24. Chancellor Angela Merkel is nearly certain to be reelected to a fourth term, so the main unknown surrounds …
