A technical analysis shows that the doomsayers who support the euro at all costs and those who naively theorize that a single currency is the root of all evil are both wrong. A euro exit could be a way of getting back to growth, but at the same time it would entail serious risks, especially for...

Hans-Olaf Henkel (Jahrgang 1940), früherer Präsident des Bundesverbands der Deutschen Industrie und heute Professor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Mannheim, analysiert hier schonungslos die Ursachen der globalen Krise und den Aktionismus der Politik. (Jürgen Plieninger)

Several European countries face challenges reminiscent of those faced by the emerging economies of Latin America. The economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital...