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We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

I'm into all things German. Everything that I own is German. As far as cars go, anyway.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.