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Germany Opts Out Of Skilled Labor Influx
Aug 14, 2009, 3:02pm
Posted by Equity Private
For those bankers and other finance professionals looking to escape centrally dictated pay caps, cross Germany off the list of havens. Bankers who take unjustifiable risks in business deals will be forced to repay their bonuses under new rules unveiled...
Relax, Germany Is Going To Eliminate Unemployment
Aug 03, 2009, 1:29pm
Posted by Equity Private
In what has to be one of the most... creative campaign promises in quite a while, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier unveils the "Deutschland Plan," wherein he will eliminate unemployment by 2020. True, there are no specific term-limits attached to...
A-Rooma-Zoom-Zoom!
May 06, 2009, 5:30pm
Posted by Equity Private
Old timers at Dealbreaker will remember with fondness the days when Volkswagen briefly became the largest company by market-cap in the world, and when it became clear to a much wider audience that Porsche made more money from their barbarian-like,...
Letting Eastern Europe Burn
Mar 02, 2009, 3:33pm
Posted by Equity Private
You sort of knew the Germans were going to be pissed. Every time something happens in Central or Eastern Europe all eyes get Teutonic twinkles and the likes of Angela Merkel start getting fruit baskets in the mail. What's the...
The Shame Of Debt
Jan 13, 2009, 12:20pm
Posted by Equity Private
In the land where the words for "debt" and "guilt" are alarmingly similar, and the chancellor seems to be named for a pubic wig, are we surprised that silly proposals for financial regulation are a regular feature? Not really. Germany...
The Circle Is Completed
Oct 13, 2008, 1:53pm
Posted by Equity Private
Europeans laugh at United States misfortune? (Check). Europeans grimly warn this is no laughing matter? (Check). Europeans discover they have been just as reckless as the United States? (Check). Europeans deny measures as dramatic as the United States took are...
Germany Concedes Bloated Rescue Required For Formerly Bloated Banks
Oct 13, 2008, 9:50am
Posted by Equity Private
It is hard not to sicker at the snotty Europeans (and I say this with all the love in my heart) who pointed fingers from lofty heights when the U.S. began tinkering with hundreds of billions of bailout. Originally, Germany...
And You Thought "Too Big To Fail" Was An American Concept
Oct 05, 2008, 6:23pm
Posted by Equity Private
Apparently not. So much for the sneering we were hearing from the Bundesbank a month and a half ago about American recklessness. The government and the Bundesbank have said that Hypo Real Estate, Germany's second-biggest property lender, is too big...
Continuing Coverage: German Waffling
Oct 05, 2008, 3:15pm
Posted by Equity Private
After berating Ireland for having done the same Germany quietly announced that they would also be insuring all bank deposits. Unlimited bank deposits. This is amusing, and also a bit frightening. Europe is facing a Lehman sized bankruptcy in Hypo...
Those Damn French Italians Spanish Are Going To Destroy The Euro
Apr 10, 2008, 11:59am
Posted by Equity Private
Any piece that quotes the French President with: "We cannot continue to cope with the autism of some bankers who do not understand that the priority is not fighting inflation, which is nonexistent, but fighting for more growth," deserves your...
