German Economists Exist to Make Economists Elsewhere Look Good

That is what readers of a NYT piece on criticisms of German government policies from the European Union and the German Council of Economic Experts, a panel of economists that advises the government might conclude. Unfortunately the piece did not make clear that the criticisms were coming from opposite directions.

The European Union is criticizing Germany for refusing to take measures that would help to correct its huge trade surplus with other euro zone countries. The list of policies that wo...