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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 [...]

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 [...]

Is the enthusiasm for ESG funds exaggerated? The movie was scary, offering the vision of an overcrowded world, lost in violent cities and faced with a mysterious enterprise “Soylent Green” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At 93, Henry Kaufman gives his thoughts on the evolution of finance and monetary policies… A lesson to ponder. Henry Kaufman represents for many in the profession, the model of the [...]

Is inflation back for good? Markets are starting to worry about that. The case is heard and widely expected, inflation is gaining ground. Whether on the side of Chinese producer prices (up 6.8% [...]

It’s hard to ignore a gain of over 20,000% in less than six years. With the Coinbase IPO, the crypto-asset universe is structuring itself.   In 2015, curious about the enthusiasm of [...]

Christine Lagarde secured the consensus in the ranks of the ECB, but for how long? Doing too much or not enough? The question resurfaced on the eve of the meeting of the Committee of Governors of [...]

In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, calls for the cancellation of public debts are gaining momentum. It did not take long for Christine Lagarde to firmly reject calls for the cancellation of all [...]