Lavish meetings in a chic winter station or in the Gallery of Battles in the Versailles palace are they the best way to reconcile people with globalization? It is not sure and it would useful because the phenomenon is as irreversible as industrialization was in the 19th century. The world is currently living with a stunning paradox. The trial of globalization is generalizing at a time when, regarding economic situation, optimism prevails and growth has rebounded and is even accelerating, if we follow the conclusions of the International Monetary Fund. If this transformation of the world was as harmful as ...

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At a moment when the Goncourt Prize in France is awarded to a narrative about the annexation of Austria by the German Nazi regime and when October Revolution is commemorated, instead of being celebrated, history is omnipresent. It has invaded political debate in France, where are castigated policies conducted “for thirty years”. At the beginning, it was the left which was targeted because that period coincided with François Mitterrand election in 1981. But, years after years, this starting point has moved and this indictment has lost some of its political content. The main flaw of the Eighties is that ...

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Financial markets have always been influenced by the innovations which affected the survival of some companies or which generated the success of the others which had been at their launch. Excessive reactions spiraling out of controls even generated major crisis as at the beginning of the years 2000 with the Internet bubble. Its blow-out had consequences by far more important than the fall of some stocks and affected growth of the American economy. Lessons have not been learnt because we see again a craze for stocks which represents the “new economy” as Alphabet, Google parent company, or Amazon. They reach ...

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