The opening of the Paris Air Show gives the opportunity to constate and to celebrate, at a time when we don’t stop to talk about de-industrialization and France industrial decline, the exceptional success of the French companies in these activities. To identify the reasons which have leaded to these successes is indispensable to bring the appropriate remedies to the sectors, which, them, are today in a difficult situation. Figures are speaking volumes. The Airbus stock market value has overpassed 100 billion euro and Safran, which produces the aircraft engines, 60 billion. The two companies have become the world leaders ...

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It was thought that the inflation issue was definitely over. During almost ten years, until the Covid-19 crisis, price increase in the developed countries had been very low, sometimes even negative to the point that central banks, with in the first position the European Central Bank, had re-interpreted their mandates: instead of acting to make inflation going down at a level inferior but near 2%, the ECB had reduced its rates and launched a massive public bonds purchase plan to make inflation rebounding to a level near but inferior to 2%. Everything has changed first with the sanitary crisis and ...

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INSEE and the Banque de France regularly publish statistics giving the value of the assets owned by the economic agents, the public sector, the enterprises and household. But the publications regarding indebtedness cause numerous comments as much as theses regarding the assets owned especially by household generate few attentions. They are yet essential data to appraise the economic and financial situation of a country and to understand the social climate which prevails in it.

At the end of the year 2022, the value of the financial assets of the French household, after deducting their short-term indebtedness to finance consumption expenditures ...

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