Hyperinflation describes a period of economic dysfunction characterized by price increases of at least 50% per month. Here's how to protect your investments.

After constitutional changes earlier this year that released Germany’s “debt brake,” the cabinet unveiled a federal budget calling for historic borrowing.

This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN— I return briefly to those singular moments when Olaf Scholz stood next to President ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Germany introduced a “debt brake” in 2009 as the world reeled from a global recession set off by the financial crisis. The debt brake restricted annual budget deficits to 0.35% of GDP.

The cost-of-living crisis may be easing in Germany but that has not sparked a shopping frenzy just yet in a country where, as ...

Property industry leaders and bankers said Bafin's move was long overdue and also fell short. Germany's property sector, which began to shrink in 2022, is undergoing its most severe slump in decades.

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Donald Trump’s tariff policies increase the risk of a financial crisis and advocated for a U.S.-European free trade agreement, picking up on an ...