At the time when the share of public expenditures reaches record levels and the indebtedness overpasses 110% of the GDP, critics are multiplying against the public services deterioration. Social movements started by their employees denounce the diminution of the services quality and are claiming for more resources and for an increase of their payrolls to facilitate the hiring of new agents. A large share of the population feels abandoned due to that deterioration which has caused protest waves and a strong increase of the votes in favor of extremist parties, from the left as from the right. To sum up ...

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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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