The publication of the 1st estimate of the growth of the French economy in the 4th quarter comes after several other very unfavourable indicators have been made public: a sharp rise in unemployment over the same period, the persistence of a trade deficit over the last twelve months close to 90 billion euros, the continued fall in housing starts (30% in two years) all in a context of accumulation of public deficits and record debt. The only good news concerns inflation: it rose to 1.4% in January over one year and makes France one of the best pupils in ...

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Usually, when we talk about deficit regarding the French economy, it is first the State budget one. We even were satisfied with its light reduction in 2022 compared to the initial forecasts. It has been revised downward and has so reached 147 billion when was expected at the end of last year a deficit near 170 billion. To the opposite the increase at an unprecedent level of the trade deficit, which is a much more revealing and worrying indicator of the weaknesses of the French economy, has given place to few comments. At the end of February, for the last ...

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According to the last figures published February 17^th by Agence France Trésor, the rate of the French 10 years bond has overpassed the 3% level for the first time since the euro crisis. The accommodative policy of the European Central Bank chaired at that time by Mario Draghi to save the States-members currency had generated an interests rates fall concerning all maturities. Inflation went near 0% to the point that the Frankfort institution had adopted as its objective, not anymore to fight against inflation but to the contrary to make it rebounding to reach a level near but ...

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