Being the first country to be affected by the corona virus pandemic, to the point that some are blaming it for its responsibility, China was the first one to emerge from the sanitary crisis, even if some clusters are reappearing, and to regain, before the other major developed countries, a growth rhythm which will allow it to quickly erasing its economic consequences. We know the skepticism what statistical data generally arouse and the comments which accompany the declarations of Beijing leaders are most of the time critical. Yet the prestigious medical review, the Lancet, has just published an unequivocal study ...

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After having set out his rebound plan intended for supporting the French economy bounce back after the deep recession caused by the covid-19 epidemic, the government, last week has presented his finance bill project along with his social security bill project for the year 2021. These two texts give a first estimation, for the year 2020, of the consequences of the crisis, on public and social security finances, and the figures, open to be updated during the year, regarding expenditures and receipts for next year. So we start to have a more precise idea of the cost for public finances ...

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The environment evolution is based on unquestionable statistical data and on physical laws which have been elaborated and confirmed as centuries went by. Ecologists, them, are politicians. They are looking for pleasing electors or some economic interests which support them. They prefer announcements effects, unnecessarily alarmist or deliberately provocative messages to get attention and to be heard, and even to be invited to TV talk shows. Then governments have, or at least they believe it, to take into account their assertions, even when they are not based on anything, to take some of their proposals and, at the end, to ...

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