The fight against the greenhouse gas emissions has now taken an essential place in most developed countries and has become a major political challenge. European institutions are concerned and are the place where sometimes occur severe confrontations between the States. But that can lead to adopted positions or to decisions which have an opposed effect to the sought-after objectives. The total emissions generated by the production and the fossil fuels utilization, calculated with the integration of the methane and of the consequences of the natural gas flaring around oil fields, as each year BP evaluates them, show that the level ...

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INSEE and the Banque de France regularly publish statistics giving the value of the assets owned by the economic agents, the public sector, the enterprises and household. But the publications regarding indebtedness cause numerous comments as much as theses regarding the assets owned especially by household generate few attentions. They are yet essential data to appraise the economic and financial situation of a country and to understand the social climate which prevails in it.

At the end of the year 2022, the value of the financial assets of the French household, after deducting their short-term indebtedness to finance consumption expenditures ...

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The point is at the heart of the political debate and of the economic policy as the decline of the French industry, despite all the measures taken for more than ten years, seems more and more obvious. But to appreciate its extent, we must not take the wrong indicator. The most frequently quoted is the continuous diminution of the industry value-added share in the GDP. But it is not the most convincing because this relative fall may also come from a stronger growth of the other sectors of activity, especially in the services with the development of tourism or of ...

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