Newsroom
The end of the Bundesbank era
With Jens Weidmann’s imminent departure, the ECB will lose its most hawkish governor.
Bundesbank
Newsroom
Trapped in a low-interest environment
The reason for the Germans’ current Weltuntergangsstimmung (apocalyptic mood) is economic.
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.
Business Spectator
Europe’s hidden doomsday machine
What Europe is still discussing and Germany is vehemently resisting – the transformation into a fiscal liability union – has long been achieved through the Target backdoor.
Business Spectator
Farewell to Europe’s old guard
ast week’s unexpected resignation of Bundesbank president Axel Weber sent shockwaves through the German government.