Temporary or more structural: is it the return of the price/wage spiral? We had almost forgotten the term: the strike (or its threat) is back. In the United States, agricultural machinery [...]
The issue of European public debts has been frozen by the pandemic. The issue may return with a vengeance They were already largely contested, the pandemic will have finished them off… The [...]
Should we really fear energy shortages this winter? Queues and aggressive reaction at uk petrol stations, soaring electricity and natural gas prices there and elsewhere, media saturations and [...]
The assault on BATX is just one aspect of Xi Jinping’s economic and political plan. “A monarch is powerful when his People is happy,” wrote Simonnet de Maisonneuve in one of his [...]
Would NFTs be the tulips of the XXIe century? The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands, houses a work by the painter Jan Brueghel the Younger, satire of the “Tulipomania” [...]
Are all bonds becoming “investment garbage” as Bill Gross claims? I report here the cry of alarm, not to say of anger that has just launched Bill Gross, the famous and former boss of the PIMCO [...]
Benefits and costs of the rapprochement with China and the suspension of the convertibility of the dollar. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon announced the suspension of the convertibility of [...]
In Venice, G-20 ministers and central bankers are showing a common front. Will it last? This year Venice meeting is reminiscent of another. In November 2008, in the midst of the financial and [...]
The CCP’s 100th anniversary marks a new step for China’s leader on the way to global political and economic leadership What could be a greater symbol than to see President Xi Jinping [...]
The COVID crisis has definitely pushed France into the “Club Med” countries. At the risk of triggering a new euro crisis? In 2020, France, together with Spain, Cyprus and Belgium, [...]