Ahead Quote by Angela Merkel

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in,…

— Gustav Stresemann

Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we…

— Martin Schulz

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.

— Edgar Fiedler

There is a broad consensus, not only in the United States but in most of the world, that if you are in an economic…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession,…

— George Papandreou

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

— Gerhard Schroder

There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany…

— George Soros

Economically and politically, Germany is extremely stable. There are countries with functioning governments whose institutions don't work. My only concern is about Europe. There's…

— Sigmar Gabriel

If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we…

— Franklin Raines

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York…

— Gordon Ramsay

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

— Angela Merkel

President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans…

— Mark Zandi