Tag: Economic policy
“My journey into economic theories”: if you only had to read one book this year…
If you had to make the difficult choice to read only one economics book for the whole year, that of Edmund Phelps, My journey in economic theories, has every reason…
Industrial and economic downgrading: the origins of the French evil
The diagnosis is known. In 2000, France and Germany were almost equal. Twenty years later, the GDP per capita of France is 15% lower than that of Germany, the debt…
Fusion card Vitale-identity card: why health insurance is very reluctant
“Very strong reservations”. This is the opinion of Health Insurance on the plan to merge the identity card with the Vitale card envisaged by the government, according to an official…
PODCAST. What are rating agencies? The Express explains everything
This week, Arnaud Bouillin, editor-in-chief of the Economy department of L’Express, explains to us what rating agencies are, while the decision of the best known of them is awaited with…
French debt and Standard & Poor’s: all you need to know about rating agencies
Bercy is in turmoil. This Friday, June 2, the rating agency Standard & Poor’s must decide on the French economy. A month ago, its competitor Fitch lowered France’s rating to…
Rating of France: budgetary choices, it will however be necessary to make them!
We have to go back to the turbulent times of the sovereign debt crisis at the start of the 2010s for the decision of a rating agency to be so…
Nuclear, a French bankruptcy: thirty years of political cowardice and shaky compromises
Who would have believed it ? Described not so long ago as a holdover from the 20th century, the energy of the atom is once again enjoying favorable winds. In…
Inflation: why it is urgent to do nothing, by Nicolas Bouzou
If the Minister of the Economy were to speak honestly to the French on the question of inflation, here is what he would say: “As you have noticed, our country…
Merge Vitale card and identity card: Attal facing a titanic construction site
The news surprised more than one, even in the ranks of the Ministry of the Interior. Tuesday, Gabriel Attal unveiled in the columns of Parisian its plan to fight against…
Agnès Pannier-Runacher: “EDF must remain the armed wing of the State”
It is on all fronts: battle in Brussels, greening of the economy, energy sobriety, rescue of EDF, relaunch of a new nuclear program… Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the Minister for Energy Transition,…