Tuesday 21 July 2015

Wolfgang Schäuble reads the wrong history books

I wrote a piece in Wirtschaftswoche about the ways in which distorted views about American economic history provide the blueprint for disaster in the Euro crisis. In particular Hans-Werner Sinn's narrative of the USA as a 'no transfer' currency zone is doing real damage. The article is in German:

Wolfgang Schäuble lernt aus dem falschen Geschichtsbuch

Finanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble lehnt Transfers nach Südeuropa ab. Soweit es innerhalb eines Währungsraums Regionen mit unterschiedlicher ökonomischer Entwicklung gibt, sind Transfers aber – das lehrt die Geschichte – ökonomisch unvermeidlich. Ganzer Text in der Wirtschaftswoche.

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Interview on 'The Street'

Yesterday, I talked about the Greek crisis on American TV station 'The Street'. See the interview here.

Sunday 22 March 2015

CNBC interview

Tomorrow morning at 7 CET I'll be on CNBC to talk about Tsipras's visit to Berlin.

Update: here is the video.