This concept was born in the United States and is starting to appear in Europe thanks to several articles in the Financial Times. What is it about? A new economic model where, structurally, its components would evolve in a divergent way. In the letter K, one branch is facing upwards and the other facing downwards. In the K-economy, part of the population sees its income and wealth increase while those of the rest of the population decrease continuously, hence a structural increase in inequality.

In the United States, in recent years, it has become much more difficult for a large ...

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After two consecutive years of recession, the Bundesbank expects only a very weak recovery in growth in 2026, i.e. 0.6%. Germany is thus one of the worst performers among European economies. Long cited as an example for the rigour of its management, its controlled inflation and its large trade surpluses, the country now appears to be the sick man of Europe because it does not seem prepared to respond to the challenges caused by the fragmentation of the world economy and the growing competition from Chinese companies.

This is not the first time that its status as a ...

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By choosing this term as the title of his documentary on the construction of the Grande Arche de La Défense, the author was conforming to a very French fault, systematically denigrating everything that has succeeded. He perfectly describes the circumstances in which this project was born. At the beginning of 1982, the President of the Republic decided to carry out several major projects of both an economic and cultural nature. Building a large building on the site then called "La Tête Défense" was part of it and gave rise to a competition in which several hundred architects ...

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