Les pluies très abondantes survenues récemment dans le sud-est de la France ont été interprétées, comme lors de chaque incident météorologique, comme étant la conséquence des dérèglements climatiques. Cela  a contribué à une mobilisation accrue en faveur de l’environnement. Elles ont aussi été à l’origine de coupures d’électricité qui ont parfois duré plusieurs jours affectant gravement la vie quotidienne des habitants. Deux enseignements doivent être tirés de ces évènements.

Il y a eu d’abord la mobilisation, jour et nuit, des équipes chargées de remettre en état ...

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For almost two years, most of the economic reflections and comments are about the increase of risks, the imminent coming of a recession and even of a new major financial crisis. No economist did forecast the 2007-2008 one and no political leader did propose measures to cope with that risk. That incites them today to announce the worst to then pretend that “they were right in saying that”. It is indisputable that the world is going through a period propitious to accidents and even to breakdowns. Trade tensions created by the American administration have generated retorts from targeted countries. Ups ...

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Liberalism has not the same signification in France than in Anglo-Saxon countries where it refers to political or societal issues. In France, it applies to economy and to a policy which confers to private economic agents the duty to reach major internal (price, full employment) equilibriums and external balances through the adjustment of the currency rate. To give a larger significance to this model, it has been invented the neo liberalism concept. It will be relaunched under Ronald Reagan mandate in the U.S. at the beginning of the Eighties through putting an end to policies inspired by Keynes and ...

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