Economy

It is certainly not the debacle, but Europe is being tested. 80 years on, will Angela Merkel emerge as a modern Churchill? Angela Merkel’s Germany has just taken over the Presidency of the [...]

Reclaiming economic sovereignty, protecting jobs … The virus of protectionism is spreading in doses that are less and less homeopathic. The evidence is more striking every day: the Covid-19 [...]

More than ever, climate change is on the agenda. Investors intend to contribute. Will they have a decisive influence? The confinement reduced the “earth overshoot day” by three [...]

Pandemic, confinement … Big cities are no longer popular, and new technologies could provide some workers with the means to escape it. ” Cities must be put in the countryside, the air [...]

Alberto Alesina advocated for a well understood and well-managed austerity. Against the tide today, will it soon be in the wind? Will there be an “Alesina moment” as there was a [...]

The COVID crisis whets the most extreme appetites in favor of money creation. But remember that there is “no such thing as a free lunch”… From “helicopter money” to debt [...]

More than ever in a position of strength at the end of the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis, will Angela Merkel be able to plug its cracks? She is not the only one, but during this crisis, [...]

An interview by Swiss journalist  Yves Hulmann for allnews.ch, on May 12, 2020 For Valérie Plagnol, the action of central banks underpins the rebound in the markets. The lack of visibility [...]

After a moment of suspense, Italy has just seen its note confirmed by the credit agencies. Was it really necessary to reach these extremes? Italy, confined since March 9, did not need this! Since [...]

Between China and the United States, the economic war continues on other grounds, and by other means. As we know, a strictly economic and financial assessment of the current situation would [...]