The massive measures to support economy after the corona virus outbreak will generate an increase of the country global indebtedness. If household, due to the constitution of  precautionary savings and to a slowing of their real estate investment, are few affected, it is not the same regarding enterprises and even regarding the State and the public administrations. With the sanitary crisis, and the measures adopted everywhere in the world to cope with it, we saw, due to that, a paradigms reversal. Before, the debts level was denounced as excessive but the threats were by large exaggerated. With the crisis, a ...

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When a fire is starting, firemen are called. Once the fire is over, it is necessary to rebuild. It is at that time an architect is called. These two professions are indispensable, the one as the other. It is the same to make a country exiting from the major economic crisis provoked by the corona virus pandemic. All the states have tried to limit the economic and the social consequences of the measures taken to fight against the propagation of the outbreak. This one being, according to a general opinion, on the way to remission, not to say disappearance, it ...

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The update of the French GDP evolution during the 2020 1^st quarter, to which INSEE has just achieved wouldn’t lead into mistakes. The first estimation did show a GDP fall by 5.8%. The new one gives a 5.3% reduction. The gap between the two publications is much larger than what we usually see; i.e. rarely more than one or two deciles. But it reveals more the difficulties to grasp the figures of an event without any precedent than a less serious admission of the consequences of the corona virus outbreak on the French economy. In ...

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