The last two motions of censure having been rejected in the National Assembly like the four previous ones, the Prime Minister is strengthened and France, for the first time since the dissolution of 2024, has a government with a certain stability and a budget that allows the State to function. On the economic front, INSEE has published the first estimate of GDP growth for 2025. With 0.9%, it is certainly far from having returned to the past rhythms but given the international context and the political instability in the country, this result is reassuring. However, it is insufficient to ...

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This concept was born in the United States and is starting to appear in Europe thanks to several articles in the Financial Times. What is it about? A new economic model where, structurally, its components would evolve in a divergent way. In the letter K, one branch is facing upwards and the other facing downwards. In the K-economy, part of the population sees its income and wealth increase while those of the rest of the population decrease continuously, hence a structural increase in inequality.

In the United States, in recent years, it has become much more difficult for a large ...

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By choosing this term as the title of his documentary on the construction of the Grande Arche de La Défense, the author was conforming to a very French fault, systematically denigrating everything that has succeeded. He perfectly describes the circumstances in which this project was born. At the beginning of 1982, the President of the Republic decided to carry out several major projects of both an economic and cultural nature. Building a large building on the site then called "La Tête Défense" was part of it and gave rise to a competition in which several hundred architects ...

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