Wirtschaft durch die Augen eines Juristen
Well, well, at least, we will soon have a new government. That is the good news for the month. The economy, though, did not do so well in the last month, especially in comparison with January 2018: „The German economy in February 2018 – a dent only?“ weiterlesen
Due to my annual skiing-holidays, I am a little late with my January monthly and thus had to watch in awe the stock exchanges crashing all over the world. Currently, the search is ongoing for the reasons of this crash. I will dwell deeper into this in the next month. Before, let’s look back into January – where the GroKo was still under construction and the German economy seemed to happily hum along: „The German Economy in January 2018 – no breathtaking…“ weiterlesen
As an awesome year drew where record chased record, Germans finally seemed to enjoyed themselves rather than going out on a shopping-spree. At least that is what the incoming figures about retail around Christmas tell us: Despite growing by a healthy three per cent, especially smaller retails seem to be not too happy about their sales figures (cf. here). „The German Economy in December 2017 – record ending to a record year!“ weiterlesen
Despite (or because of?) a political turmoil after the failed „Jamaica“-coalition talks in Germany (others would say: normal political circumstances), the economy is doing quite well, even if the DAX showed some weakness in November: „The German Economy in November 2017 – No Worries!“ weiterlesen
It is getting quite boring to announce record after record in the German economy: From DAX to employment and from industrial output to ifo – record-highs everywhere. We Germans are not accustomed to such a lengthy period of record-growht. There are, however, not many pessimists left now who are willing to predict any sort of crisis. And I am currently at least not one of them. First, let’s look into the German economy with the help of several key indicators: „The German Economy in October 2017 – on the rise“ weiterlesen
The German people have elected their new Parliament on 24 September, at least the predictions of one week before were not totally off, with the right-wing „Alternative für Deutschland“ gaining 94 seats, the liberal democrats („FDP“) being back in the seats and everybody else not really achieving the results so badly wished for. The reactions range from „Germany is becoming a normal“ to warnings before a new Nazi-Deutschland. Wow! „The German Economy in September 2017 – economic paradise, political hell?“ weiterlesen
Like the weather, which at least in Germany sent some mixed messages about „summer“, the German economy currently sends mixed signals as to its status: „The German Economy in August 2017 – mixed signals“ weiterlesen
Although we will see in the following that not all but most indicators point to another record month of July (thereby topping June), there are at least some minor signs of trouble ahead – which still can be resolved easily, though. Hence, let’s take a deeper dive into the data: „The German economy in July 2017 – Peak German Economy?“ weiterlesen
With a view to the most recent figures and indices tracing the German economy this question should indeed be permitted. After May 2017 setting record after record (cf. here) the question is whether June topped it again: „The German economy in June 2017 – can it get any better? Really?“ weiterlesen
And indeed – at least in Germany – the train of economic growth kept rolling throughout May unabated (as hoped for at the end of March) – now reaching levels never seen before in ALL of the areas: „The German Economy in May 2017 – running really hot!“ weiterlesen