At a time when the debate on public debt in France is becoming increasingly tense, the situation in the United States does not seem to attract much attention. However, the results are not very bright and the threats to the world economy are therefore real.  The federal debt in 2024, to which we would have to add the debt of the federated states, if we want to make comparisons, reached 98% of GDP in 2024 and the forecasts for 2035, with no change in policy, 125%. The federal deficit in 2024 amounted to 6.4% of GDP and could reach ...

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We remember. That was in 1974. Richard Nixon had to resign as President of the United States. It was then proven that his party, with his support, had spied on his competitor, the Democratic candidate, in 1972 during the presidential campaign that had led him to the White House. The site of these misdeeds was a building located in Washington, the Watergate Office Building, hence the name, taken up by the media and today by the history of the scandal. Nearly twenty years later, President Clinton was accused of having had a sexual relationship with one of his aides, Monica ...

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The large Donald Trump victory, at variance with the poll opinions which had estimated that the result will be very narrow, and the creation of a Republican majority in the Senate have allowed to give a real visibility to the prospects of the American economy for the coming years. In Europe, to the contrary, when the worries about growth were becoming worse, Germany, after France, was entering into an uncertainness period after the breaking off of the coalition which is governing the country and the call for snap elections at the Bundestag. If nothing is done, the spread already observed ...

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