INSEE, the French statistical office, will publish at the beginning of next week its last estimation of French growth during the fourth quarter and will permit to have a clear vision of the economic achievements in 2017. The debate, regarding numbers, 1.9 or 2%, is fascinating commentators but doesn’t make a lot of sense since official statistics accuracy is not enough to make the difference. 2% looks better, on an optical point of view, than 1.9%. This result shows a clear improvement compared to the five years of stagnation France has bored between 2012 and 2016. The ...

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Innovation generates passions. We cannot count the comments and the books which explain that artificial intelligence will transform our lives, for the best, according to some or for the worst according to others. Electric cars or autonomous vehicles will drive us to rethink about our moving modes. Smart-phones have changed our daily life. Internet is not anymore limited to professional activities and permanently accompanies us and wherever we go. But these passions or this interest are selective. The twin shale oil and gas revolutions have not been forecast by anybody, anyway in France. It is still denied in our country ...

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Donald Trump has announced last week he will sign a decree creating a 25% tax on steel imports and a 10% one on aluminum imports. He hopes, in doing so, that the American production will rebound in these two sectors which he believes they are strategic, regarding the sovereignty of the country. This has triggered several passionate declarations from European leaders and some more cautious ones from China. They threat to replicate with retaliatory measures. According to his habits, the American president has passed a new step in the verbal escalation in mentioning the prospect of a trade war he ...

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