Tag: Economic policy
Pension reform: what if a third way was possible? By Guy Bee
While the final bill for the pension reform arrives this Thursday, March 16 in the National Assembly, the government has made the decline in the retirement age the unwavering pillar…
Electricity: Brussels’ plan to contain prices
Protecting consumers from soaring electricity prices and allowing suppliers to have predictable income, these are the two objectives set out by the European Commission. This Tuesday, March 14, Brussels presented…
Silicon Valley Bank bankruptcy: the four lessons to remember
And if the story was stammering? On March 15, 2008, the American authorities bailed out Bear Stearns, the fifth investment bank on Wall Street. First crack in the subprime house…
Retirement by capitalization: it will be necessary to open the debate
Always think about it, never talk about it… During his visit to the Senate, Olivier Dussopt was careful not to respond to LR parliamentarians on the advisability of introducing a…
Pension reform: special schemes and the trap of the “grandfather” clause
What if the disappearance of special diets set fire to the powder? While the pension reform bill arrives on the desks of senators, the Republicans, in the position of kingmakers,…
Where are the billionaires on the planet? The answer in five graphs
As the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have ushered the world into a new phase of globalization, it is worth looking in the rear view mirror. Over the past…
EDF: how the government got stuck on nationalization
The debates were electric. The National Assembly adopted, Thursday, February 9, in first reading and against the opinion of the government, a socialist text for a “nationalization” of EDF without…
Senior index: should the government go further?
During the presentation of the pension reform at the beginning of January, the employment of seniors seemed to have fallen by the wayside. In the menu concocted by the executive…
Record trade deficit: when will the sanction be imposed?
Obviously, the figure makes you dizzy: 164 billion euros in trade balance deficit in 2022 alone. A level unmatched since the end of the Second World War. This is 3.5…
Defense budget: still a necessary effort, by Nicolas Bouzou
For three years, our economies have become the adjustment variables of tragedy. After the finally blessed time of liberal globalization, here we are in a war economy: war against a…