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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 [...]

Will the Biden-Putin meeting just outline dissensions or make baby steps to a  rapprochement? A meeting of American and Russian heads of state in Geneva feels a bit like a Cold War summit, which, [...]

Should fear inflationary anxieties or see the dawn a new era of economic and industrial development? What if all the inflationary anxieties of recent months were nothing more than false alarms? [...]

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% [...]

Beyond the judicial controversy, the issue of monopoly position and their procession of distortions of free competition is resting. Epic’s lawsuit against Apple once again raises the issue [...]

Will the Covid get the better of the tourism expansion strategy in Japan? Just a hundred days before opening of the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, prospects are not looking good at all. The [...]

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 [...]

Joe Biden’s gigantic support plan is boosting the US economy once more, rejuvenating its economic model too?   “America is back!” has proclaimed Joe Biden. He seems to have given [...]

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 [...]