Peter Keup can still remember how it felt to hold deutsche marks in his hand. “It was special to even touch this money,” he recalls. “It felt solid. The East German mark was thinner, flimsier.” As a ...
When it comes to recent comments on Germany from Peter Navarro, Donald Trump’s top trade adviser, (which are now causing some outrage across the Atlantic) there’s quite a bit to unpack, but when it ...
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- The Trump administration stopped short of branding China and Germany currency manipulators, despite having accused both countries of keeping their currencies artificially low ...
There is considerable merit to the Trump administration’s charges that Germany has used the euro to gain an unfair competitive advantage for its export sector. However, one has to wonder how much ...
The euro currency’s recent decline against the dollar following the European Union’s failed Brussels summit and European voters’ rejection of the draft European constitution has brought some cheer for ...
Lost in the hand-wringing over the possibility of a Greek departure from the euro is a rather striking irony: Greece is hardly the nation with the most to lose should the single currency collapse.
There is no reason to fear that restitution payments by Germany to victims of the Nazi regime will endanger the stability of the deutschemark, Bonn Finance Minister Franz Etzel told a press conference ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany’s central bank head has rejected a Trump administration official’s statement that German companies have benefited from an artificially cheap currency. Bundesbank head ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. U.K.-based Neil Winton covers the European Auto industry. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the European Union is really a ...