Wolfgang Schäuble reads the wrong history books

I wrote a piece in Wirtschaftswoche about the ways in which distorted views about American economic history provide the blueprint for disaster in the Euro crisis. In particular Hans-Werner Sinn's narrative of the USA as a 'no transfer' currency zone is doing real damage. The article is in German:

Wolfgang Schäuble lernt aus dem falschen Geschichtsbuch

Finanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble lehnt Transfers nach Südeuropa ab. Soweit es innerhalb eines Währungsraums Regionen mit unterschiedlicher ökonomischer Entwicklung gibt, sind Transfers aber – das lehrt die Geschichte – ökonomisch unvermeidlich. Ganzer Text in der Wirtschaftswoche.

Radio interview

about Greece on Deutschlandfunk (in German).

Interview on Swiss TV (in Italian)

Scroll down and click on 'Grexit non conviene a nessuno'.

A Grexit may be plausible from an economic perspective, but politically it would be a disaster

My take on the risks associated with a Grexit at the LSE's European Politics and Policies Blog. With a very old photo.

How austerity won the UK elections, and what this means for Labour

My comment on the UK elections in the Huffington Post.

Interview on 'The Street'

Yesterday, I talked about the Greek crisis on American TV station 'The Street'. See the interview here.

CNBC interview

Tomorrow morning at 7 CET I'll be on CNBC to talk about Tsipras's visit to Berlin.

Update: here is the video.