A German journalist, economist, and professor of economic journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund. He focuses on key contemporary issues: money, credit, and currency; globalization and geopolitics; demography and productivity; climate change and decarbonization; democracy, public discourse, and populism. He writes weekly articles for the Manager Magazin and Der Spiegel, presenting the most important economic developments. Together with economists from other universities, he founded the Narrative Economics Alliance Ruhr (NEAR), a team researching the interaction between markets, politics, media, and society.