The American president omnipresence in the media and in the social networks has an inconvenient which he seems not to have completely controlled: to attract attention, it is necessary to avoid, as possible, to repeat himself and to announce every time something new. That leads him to take decisions and to pass judgments which are frequently carrying contradictions. The most worrying point is that he doesn’t seem conscious of that when even he falls into a denial. It is this instability of the economic policy and of the American diplomacy which constitutes a threat for financial markets as for ...

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The deep discontent provoked by past and coming increases of fuels taxation is a further sign of the political leaders incapacity to establish a right diagnostic about the situations they propose to correct, to elaborate the appropriated policies and to make them accepted by their citizens. The increase of the taxes levied on fuels and the convergence at the top between gasoline and diesel has, as an objective, to favor “energy transition”. But this policy, prompted by laudable intentions, is based on a confusion which has been at the origin of many errors.

Climate warming is generated by the accumulation ...

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The publication of the unemployment figures for the 3^rd quarter constitutes a new disappointment. Jobseekers number has reached 3.72 million, a 0.5% increase compared to the previous quarter. However, a 1% fall is noticed on one year but these small variations must not divert attention from the main point. Unemployment stays at a very high level in France with a 9% rate for these who are registered at “Pôle Emploi” as having no activity at all. The rate is much higher if are added all the part-time employees who would wish to find full-time jobs. Even ...

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