Energy has always been at the core of the transformations which have affected societies. It is the coal which has allowed the industrial revolution and which has offered the possibility to the countries where were located the deposits to developing and to increasing their influence in the world. The 20^th century has been, in many considerations, the oil century as much by the huge possibilities it gave as by the crisis it has been at the origin. The access to the Caspian Sea resources had incited Germany to invade the south of Russia, an attempt which has failed in ...

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Under the influence of the theories developed by Keynes and after the decisions of the president Roosevelt to get out of the 1929 crisis, the budgetary policy became, before the monetary policy and the action of the central banks, an essential tool giving to the governments the means to restore the economic balances and to satisfy household and enterprise needs. The increase of the State investment expenditures had a positive impact on growth and employment. The taxes reductions on household, through the purchasing power increase and the consumption which was resulting from them were supporting demand. The charges reductions granted ...

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These last days, the government and INSEE have given a large set of data allowing to having a more precise vision about France financial situation. INSEE had published at the end of September the figures of the national assets and of the development of the public debt. The government has sent to the Parliament its finance bill project for 2024 which gives a description of the budget deficit evolution and of the State debt charges. It is these last figures which have mainly attracted attention in an inflationist context which remains high and after the rates increases decided for one ...

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