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"Politically we have to be careful that in the spirit of justice we don't reach a point where the taxpayer bears the bad risks and the privately functioning banks in the end have all the good opportunities," Merkel said.
But in her speech to Germany's banking élite, Merkel also acknowledged that Europeans were under pressure to deal with the issue of toxic debt. "I am dying to see how the American model will work and whether private-sector incentives can actually sell the more difficult assets," she...
But many Merkel critics say Germany needs to act now. Merkel's wait-and-see policy just isn't working, they argue. Economists now predict that Germany's export-dependent economy will contract by a record 7% this year. And the latest data from the European Central Bank show that...
German banks have an estimated $265 billion to $400 billion in bad debt on their books. Put another way: that's as much as 12% of German GDP. The U.S. bad-bank plans calls for purchasing up to $1 trillion in toxic debt, equivalent to 6.8% of U.S. GDP. German...
There is a chance that Merkel will unveil something at the G-20 meeting to show that Europe's biggest economy is dealing with the issue. Axel Weber, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, said talks between the banks, the finance ministry and SoFFin, the federal bank-stabilization fund, could produce...