Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel at the 2011 European People's Party congress.
Business Spectator

Why Merkozy is destined to fail

Whoever believed that the never-ending eurozone crisis had been solved during the holiday break would have been surprised by the difficult French bond auction last week, Italian yields once again …

The Reserve Bank of Australia building in Canberra.
Business Spectator

Testing the RBA’s DNA

Both the Bank of England and the German Bundesbank enjoy formal independence, but this independence looks and feels very different in practice.