English Summary: On the basis of the most recent foreign trade statistics published by the Federal Statistical Office and additional data kindly provided by them to us WuG regularly analyses German foreign trade and its implications for the business cycle in Germany, the European Monetary Union (EMU) and the world economy.
Tag Archiv für August
Konjunktur/Frankreich/Spannungszahl: Die Spannungszahl August 2016 und eine Einschätzung der französischen Konjunktur
English Summary: WuG regularly analyses the business cycle so far for Germany, France, United States, Switzerland and the European Monetary Union as a whole on the basis of the monthly data of the labour market (unemployment=supply of labour; job openings=demand of labour). Out of this we calculate the economic activity indicator developed by Claus Köhler, former member of the German Council of Economic Experts. The result needs then careful interpretation and allows a very early and reliable estimation of the business cycle. So far this analysis is only published in German language under subscription.
Medienanalyse, August 2016: Wie häufig kamen die Parteien im öffentlichen Rundfunk zu Wort (neu seit Mai 2016: nachrichtlich ergänzt um AfD und FDP)?
English summary: Each month WuG presents a media analysis answering the question how often German parties, represented in the national parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, Deutsche Bundestag, are being interviewed by German public broadcasting. This in our view is decisive for a democratic formation of opinion. The high imbalances we found out so far resulted already in a case at the broadcasting commission. The final answer of this commission which we received is not at all convincing. On the contrary, the letter of the chairman of the broadcasting commission poses new questions. Against this background we found out in a further analysis that according to our information more than one third of the membership of the broadcasting commission is active in a political party and had or have a certain political rank in it, among them the chairman and the deputy chairman of the broadcasting commission. This contrasts with a judgement of the Federal Constitutional Court as we have outlined in the same article. Moreover, whereas the parties CDU, CSU, SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen are represented in the broadcasting commission the left party “Die Linke” is not. One regular result of our analysis is that the public radio station Deutschlandfunk interviews politicians of the left party far less than those of the other parties represented in the national parliament. However, it is less important which party is strikingly underrepresented in public-broadcasting, but rather that one party is strikingly underrepresented at all – for years.
Konjunktur/Deutschland/Ost- und Westdeutschland: Die Spannungszahl August 2016 und eine Einschätzung der Konjunktur in Deutschland
English Summary: WuG regularly analyses the business cycle so far for Germany, France, the European Monetary Union as a whole, United States and Switzerland on the basis of the monthly data of the labour market (unemployment=supply of labour; job openings=demand of labour). Out of this we calculate the economic activity indicator developed by Claus Köhler, former member of the German Council of Economic Experts. The result needs then careful interpretation and allows a very early and reliable estimation of the business cycle. So far this analysis is only published in German language under subscription.
Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft – Analyse & Meinung Edition August 2016
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