To France’s President Mitterrand a common currency was seen as a way of anchoring a united Germany within the EU and (ironically) as a device to contain Germany’s relative economic strength.

Meanwhile, German citizens have accepted severe wage restraints without the former benefit of a strengthening currency, leading to negligible gains in consumer welfare. And yet wage restraints ...

Is Germany a currency manipulator? ... “Germany is running a current account surplus of getting on for 9 percent of GDP. This surplus is, in absolute terms, bigger than the Chinese surplus.

It's not meant as a protest against Europe's new currency. And central bankers aren't exactly quaking in their wingtips. But teenagers in Prien, a ...

THIS June 20 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the new German economic policy, by now known all over the world as the "social market economy." It is no coincidence that this date is also ...

A sharp shift in tone toward Germany, casting the euro as fuel for that country's massive trade surplus, has raised concerns that the U.S. president's trade-centric world view may see the euro not as ...

After the Franco-German War of 1870 until 1871 and the subsequent founding of a German Empire, a new and uniform decimal currency could have been established. This was about a kingdom of gold.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany's central bank head has rejected a Trump administration official's statement that German companies have benefited from an artificially cheap currency.

Although Germany’s is the first national government to acknowledge Bitcoin as money, a federal judge in Texas ruled earlier this month that Bitcoin “is a currency or form of money” that ...

Germany-based pharmaceuticals company Merck has revamped its hedging policy to protect against unfavorable shifts in currency-exchange rates sparked by global trade tensions.

This Friday we bring you another article from Mandy Lindner, The Real Asset Company’s summer intern. This week Mandy has written a potted history of Germany’s monetary system since the turn of ...