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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]