This week, Béatrice Mathieu, senior reporter and economics specialist at L’Express, dissects the budgetary stability plan presented by the government.
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Charlotte Baris: Exactly a year ago, La Loupe took the time for a definition episode, our famous cabinets, to explain what rating agencies are. It was with Arnaud Bouillin, the head of the Economy department at L’Express.
Arnaud Bouillin: Rating agencies assess the solvency of a company or a state, that is to say its ability to repay the money it wants to borrow on the financial markets. To do this, the agencies analyze the various macroeconomic indicators which make it possible to say whether the borrower is solid.
Charlotte Baris: Among these indicators analyzed are the deficit and debt of a State. Two words that we are talking about a lot at the moment, and which are being scrutinized in our country.
So, like every six months, the agency ratings fall one after the other. And this year, the executive and the financial markets are particularly feverish. “Debt, France weighed down” is the subject on the front page of L’Express this week. But who is responsible? The answer in this episode.
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