Pure Optimism – What Else?
Today’s German Jewish community represents and lives all the best traditions of our Jewishness: responsibility to preserve our cherished Jewish heritage, having the imagination to be open and modern to new challenges and the determination to jointly build a completely [...]
Large Loans Jeopardize Euro
Don’t blame alone the Germans for the euro’s woes
Since December 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) has provided over one trillion euros, or 1.3 trillion US dollars, in liquidity to European banks. This money has mostly been used to purchase [...]
My First Jew
On November 9th, 1978, the 40th anniversary of the national pogrom often called ‘Kristallnacht,’ I demonstrated with a handful of trade unionists and school pupils at the Jewish cemetery in Goslar. Jews had called Goslar home since the early Middle Ages, although [...]
Consumer Education Belongs on the Agenda of Modern Banks
Old paradigms of money have become obsolete
Money is the barometer of a society’s virtues,” was Ayn Rand’s credo. Milton Friedman preached “money matters” as the guiding principle of monetary policy, and Alfred Rappaport [...]
The Chicken Soup Connection
Truth be told, what Alexa Karolinski really wanted to do was write a cookbook. The scrumptious cooking of her grandmother Regina was something she could remember from earliest childhood. The grown-up Alexa became a filmmaker, however, so perhaps it makes perfect sense [...]