Germany must reduce its current-account surplus
Germany’s sustained current-account surplus is not only bad for others in Europe and beyond—it is bad for almost all Germans too.
politics, economy and employment & labour
Jan Behringer is head of the economic policy unit at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf. Till van Treeck is a professor and managing director at the Institute for Socio-Economics at the University Duisburg-Essen. Achim Truger is also a professor at the institute and a member of the German Council of Economic Experts.
Germany’s sustained current-account surplus is not only bad for others in Europe and beyond—it is bad for almost all Germans too.
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