Ten years ago, the bankruptcy of the American investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the biggest financial crisis since World War II and a severe recession which hurt every developed country. Comments are abounding regarding the responsibilities and the efficiency of the measures decided after the crisis to avoid its reproduction. Unfortunately, the chosen date shows that all the lessons have not been learnt and that the search of the responsibilities is incomplete. The starting point of the crisis was not Lehman Brothers bankruptcy caused by the rejection of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to do “whatever it could ...

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Cet été aura été marqué par deux évènements affectant des infrastructures avec de lourdes conséquences. L’incendie d’un centre de distribution d’électricité a paralysé pendant une semaine le trafic ferroviaire depuis de la gare Montparnasse vers toute une partie de la France au moment des départs en vacances. L’effondrement d’un pont autoroutier à Gènes a causé la mort de plusieurs dizaines de personnes et menace, en raison du rôle essentiel de la liaison concernée, l’activité d’une région, la Ligurie, et d’un des principaux ports de la M ...

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Military battles are won thanks to appropriate alliances. It is the same in economy where the usual term is rather competition but the result is the same: there are winners and losers. The United States president seems to ignore that obviousness. On one side he shows off, to the opposite to his predecessors, an unlimited desire for power and, in the same time, he isolates his country. Every meetings he participates or appointments he gives, and there would have been a lot in July, reveals deep clashes. NATO Summit saw the United States bringing an accusation against European countries. The ...

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