After having announced, at the end of September, several measures intended to soften the consequences of the real estate crisis which hurts the country (reduction of the personal contribution and of the real estate loans rates and of the banks required reserves) and offered financial supports to local authorities for around 140 billion dollars, the Chinese government has just decided to make more accommodative the monetary policy for the first time for 14 years. It has left to understand that a support program of the household demand will be put into place in 2025. The Chinese president Xi Jinping, when ...

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The Barnier government fall after the likely vote of a motion of censure regarding the Social Security financing law is the consequence of the contradictions between the economic policy choices adopted for ten years and the necessity to contain the evolution of the French public debt. But the alarming words employed these last two weeks are immoderate: the comparison with Greece doesn’t make any sense due to the different sizes of the two countries and these about Germany are groundless because the country is going to be confronted with heavy economic difficulties and a real political instability caused by ...

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The reports and the comments are plentiful after France poor economic results. The followed trend for twenty years is worrying due to a continuous and significant downgrade of the main economic indicators. After two decades shown by growth, an inflation reduction, the necessary industrial restructurings along with some mastery regarding public finances (the public debt in 2002 reached only 60% of the GDP) which had allowed France to come in the euro zone, the situation has not stopped to deteriorate: trade deficit and record public indebtedness, low growth and unemployment staying at a high level and a worrying de-industrialization. All ...

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