De tous les chiffres publiés depuis la rentrée, aucun ne reflète mieux l’impasse dans lequel l’économie française se retrouve à la suite de la stratégie adoptée par le gouvernement. Le déficit commercial a bondi au mois d’octobre à 4,6 milliards d’euros, du fait de la baisse des exportations, qui retombe à leur niveau d’il y a un an, après une diminution continue depuis six mois, et de la hausse record des importations qui dépassent désormais les montants atteints au troisième trimestre 2014, avant la chute des ...

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Invalidating Minister of Finance past forecasts, interest rate France pays for its 10 years bonds stabilized at the end of this year around 0,8%, a historically low level. That will have significant consequences on public debt cost in 2016, which should fall under 40 billions euros, instead of the 43;5 billions which are mentioned in the 2016 finance bill, still under discussion at the parliament. Senator Serge Dassault report permits us to have are a better understanding of the ways under which this debt is managed, but also provides us with needlessly pessimistic forecasts of the evolution of ...

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INSEE, the French statistical body, publishes, at the end of this week, its first estimation of the 3rd quarter growth rate of the French economy, the word, growth becoming, year after year, more and more unsuitable. The Minister of economic Affairs, Emmanuel Macron, has evocated a more appropriate concept: lethargy, which is closer to reality. Industrial production and foreign trade numbers, as those of household consumption and fiscal receives are already known. Nothing let us hope a return to a normal growth rate, i. e. above 2%, consistent with long term trends and able to reverse unemployment curb.

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