With the new year, I’ve made the switch to the Afghanistan and Pakistan desk with Germany’s news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa). I am now based in Islamabad as dpa’s bureau chief and correspo...

This one was deeply personal. As a synthesis of nearly ten years of work, this piece was an attempt to explain what I think is the most pressing political issue in financial markets right now. But ...

I think it is power that excites people about economics. For this series, a team at DW put together visual first, 3 minute TikTok videos; stories of “geoeconomcis”. The term is a catchphrase. I t...

I’ll hand it to the 41 pages of Stephen Miran’s “User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System” that they are intriguingly written from an economics point of view. 41 pages stuffed with e...

For this 25 Minute documentary, I met hackers across Europe who say they were able to tap into solar power generators remotely. The amounts of power they say they had access to is so large, that it...

This piece would be forshadowing to the massive spending package agreed to by the CDU/SPD/Greens in March 2025. But in early January, in preparation for our election coverage, I tried to visualize ...

Blogging should be easy. But they’ve put a price tag on easy so here’s how I do it. Skip the prose and… jump to espanso handling jekyll yaml jump to espanso handling jekyll paste images jum...

It seemed like clockwork. Strike-organizers for VW in Hannover Stöcken told me, at 9:30 am the break starts, people will gather at 9:45 when the strike officially starts and »our demonstration will...

Production of a breaking news story, to explain to our international audience how the economic discourse behind the Schuldenbremse, that is the “debt break” – a unique feature of German fiscal poli...