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Housing affordability is often framed as a supply problem. This brief examines the role of speculative finance in rental housing and argues that rent regulation is a powerful tool for promoting financ...

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Beutet der Osten den Westen aus? Viele Milliarden Aufbauhilfen und nichts als Undank? Nein, sagt der Soziologe Steffen Mau. Wer den Osten als undankbares Kind behandelt und nach Taschengeldentzug ruft...

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War on Iran is changing the currency calculations of Gulf energy exporters. But the dollar’s global role depends on far more than the denomination of a barrel of oil

Finanzkrisen und Geldsysteme Sommersemester 2026 Im Sommersemester 2026 findet ab April wieder unsere Ringvorlesung “Finanzkrisen und Geldsysteme” statt. Nach einer Vorstellung der kritischen Wirtsc...

On a misty morning in December, two photographers captured the images of 304 individual humpbacks – the highest number of large whales ever identified in a single day.

US lacks firepower to provide $350bn in coverage needed to revive Strait of Hormuz transits, JPMorgan says

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Calls to weaken the dollar have become a feature of Trump's second term. But in today's credit-based system, where the US currency is often created offshore, nativist politics cannot be translated int...

Kenneth Rogoff, Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead. Yale 2025.

The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enter...