Crises are not always financial ones. They can hurt an industrial sector and if this one is important as the car industry in France and even more in Germany, that can have repercussions on the whole economy. Our country has already had that experience in the Seventies and the Eighties with plant closures and massive redundancies in the steel industry or with telecommunications twenty years later when the rise of the mobile phones has affected all the information treatment and transmission systems. These crises have provoked the disappearance or the passage under foreign control of national industry jewels. The car ...

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Paul Volcker death has given the opportunity to recall his essential role, since he was appointed at the presidency of the American central bank. He will be at the origin of the predominant role given to central banks in the U.S. as in Europe and in Japan, notably regarding the fight against inflation. This role is not without making us reminding that one the British economist, John Maynard Keynes, plaid, at the beginning of the Thirties to get the world out from the terrible crisis which affected it in 1929. He made accepted that the market was not able ...

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The very heavy rains which recently happened in the South-East of France have been interpreted, as in every meteorological event, as being the consequence of climate warming. That has contributed to an increased mobilization in favor of environment. They have also been at the origin of power cuts which have, in some cases, last several days, heavily affecting the daily life of habitants. Two lessons can be got from these events.

There is first the night and day commitment of the teams, who are in charge of putting back in activity networks and taking care of their good working. It ...

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