The media impact of economic news publications is mainly the result of their predictive nature. It is not new. Since the beginning of humanity, and astrology emergence can testify of it, men are obsessed by what may arrive to them and pay a lot of attention to those who pretend to tell it to them. The success of economics and of the economists is the current version of this phenomenon. There is not a single day without the release of economic forecasts. Due to the necessary delay to gather numbers we are at the point where we forecast or revise ...

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Just 50 years ago, the Cultural Revolution was starting. It was praised in France, at that time. Alain Peyrefitte, in his book “When China wakes up” concludes that” the Chinese revolution constitutes definitely the most extraordinary experience of the time being … and maybe of anytime”. Valery Giscard d’Estaing commented Mao Zedong death with these words: “a worldwide mind lighthouse has been switch off”.  Since that period, Chinese leaders took their distances in qualifying his records as a success for 70% and a failure for 30% and the People Daily, last week went further:” History has proven that the Cultural ...

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Just three years ago, who had ever heard about Donald Trump and Elon Musk ? Those who had stayed in New York during the Eighties remembered the story of a real estate magnate who got bankrupted but who recovered. There was a Trump Tower, on 5th avenue and rumors in tabloids about his misbehaviors and his divorces. But nobody paid attention to him anymore. Today, he is the republican candidate for the next presidential election, which will occur in six months from now, to the great displeasure of the party establishment, who has done all it could do to turn him ...

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