The signal of the economic activity degradation and even in some cases, of a recession, as in Germany, and of the slowing of inflation, have not dissuaded the Central Banks, apart from China, from going on with increasing their rates or with announcing future increases. The chairman of the Federal Reserve in Washington has not proceeded to an eleventh rise in June but he gave to understand that other increases will occur before the year end. The European Central Bank, to the opposite, has proceeded July 15^th to an eighth increase of 25 basis points and its chairman, Christine ...

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The opening of the Paris Air Show gives the opportunity to constate and to celebrate, at a time when we don’t stop to talk about de-industrialization and France industrial decline, the exceptional success of the French companies in these activities. To identify the reasons which have leaded to these successes is indispensable to bring the appropriate remedies to the sectors, which, them, are today in a difficult situation. Figures are speaking volumes. The Airbus stock market value has overpassed 100 billion euro and Safran, which produces the aircraft engines, 60 billion. The two companies have become the world leaders ...

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It was thought that the inflation issue was definitely over. During almost ten years, until the Covid-19 crisis, price increase in the developed countries had been very low, sometimes even negative to the point that central banks, with in the first position the European Central Bank, had re-interpreted their mandates: instead of acting to make inflation going down at a level inferior but near 2%, the ECB had reduced its rates and launched a massive public bonds purchase plan to make inflation rebounding to a level near but inferior to 2%. Everything has changed first with the sanitary crisis and ...

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